The Islamic Research and Educational Academy had planned to hold an event, "Jesus in the Bible and the Koran", in the university's Copland Theatre on Saturday evening. International speakers associated with the IREA have been addressing groups at the university since at least 2005.

The decision to cancel the booking was made after several academics and community members contacted Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis's office with concerns about the extremist nature of IREA.

The university is reviewing its bookings policy following The Australian's report last month of gender segregation at events held on campus by IREA and another Islamic organisation, Hikmah Way.

The Australian has obtained one of the letters sent to Professor Davis by an academic who declined to be named. "If a white supremacist group told blacks and Asians that they must sit up the back of the lecture theatre, as IREA and other Muslim groups do with women, they would not be allowed to use the University of Melbourne facilities," the academic wrote. "Nor would any other group calling for the amputation of hands of thieves or suggesting that rape was a woman's fault because of the way she dressed. IREA does all of these things.

"It is quite unreasonable that the University of Melbourne should provide a public platform for, and thereby implicitly endorse, a group like IREA."

Posters at the Melbourne conference designed to clear up "misconceptions" about Islam included one entitled "Hijab: A solution for Rape".

FINALLY UNIVERSITY CAME TO THEIR SENSES AND DECIDED NOT TO KEEP APPEASING MUSLIM JIHADIS SPREADING NOTHING BUT HATE.