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Silma Ihram (born Anne Frances Beaumont c. 1954) is an Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College' in Sydney, and a campaigner for racial tolerance. She was also the Australian Democrats candidate for the seat of Auburn in the 2007 state election, and the Democrats candidate for the Division of Reid in the 2007 federal election. Ihram is the author of two books, the producer of an educational video in Arabic,〔 and the subject of the documentary, ''Silma's School''. She has been described as "Erin Brockovich in a hijab". ==Early life== Silma Ihram was born Anne Frances Beaumont,〔 to a middle-class agnostic family, and grew up in the suburb of Balgowlah, on Sydney's Northern Beaches. At the age of five, Ihram was sent to boarding school〔 at Meriden, an Anglican school in Strathfield for her primary education, and the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Croydon for high school, completing her matriculation in 1971. She then completed a Bachelor's degree in Marine Biology at James Cook University. Despite the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist influences from her up-bringing, Ihram ended up with the Baptists who she found to be "very inspirational."〔 She then moved to an Islander church in North Queensland, and studied theology by correspondence from the Baptist sector.〔 Ihram became a born-again Christian in 1968, and participated in missionary work with the Children's Special Service Mission (CSSM) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1976, during an extended trip to Indonesia, Ihram had a "personal revelation that I had to become a Muslim"〔 and converted to Islam, changing her name to Silma Ihram.〔 She was followed soon after by her Irish Catholic husband.〔 She subsequently returned to university, this time at the University of Sydney, completing a bachelor's degree in Indonesian and History. She established the first Muslim Women's Shop and Centre in 1979.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silma Ihram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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