Muslim Community Radio (callsign 2MFM) is a community radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

 station based in Bankstown

Bankstown, New South Wales

Bankstown is a suburb of south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bankstown is located 20 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Bankstown.-History:Prior to European...

 and broadcasts to Sydney on a city-wide licence. It is a volunteer run organisation and is funded mostly through listener support.

History

The station first broadcast under a temporary licence during Ramadan

Ramadan

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which lasts 29 or 30 days. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and...

 and Dhu al-Hijjah

Dhu al-Hijjah

Dhu al-Ḥijjah is the twelfth and final month in the Islamic calendar.This is a very sacred month in the Islamic calendar, marking the end of the year. It is in this month in which the Hajj takes place....

 beginning in 1995 and then added a weekly Friday broadcast in 1997. A full community broadcasting licence was granted on May 24, 2001.

Programming

Muslim Community Radio broadcasts primarily in Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 and Lebanese with a small amount of English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 programming. The station covers Islam

Islam

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ic religious teaching and festivals

Muslim holidays

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along with educational and cultural programming.