(WA Today) A concerned parent at the Perth school attended by a teenager shot dead by police on Saturday contacted authorities in the weeks before the attack over fears students were being radicalised.
In a letter dated April 3, the Rossmoyne Senior High School mother claimed a year 11 student at the school named Mohammed was using the school’s prayer room to try and convert her year 8 son to Islam.
The parent said she had seen screenshots of a “prayer room group chat” between students which alarmed her, including a reference to the children watching videos of Zakir Naik, a controversial figure who has been accused by Indian authorities of spreading Islamic extremism.
“Messages contained information about conversion to Islamic religion inducing fear to world end, targeting other students for conversion,” the letter read.
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