Posted on 01/31/2010 6:35:06 AM PST by La Lydia
In Northern Virginia, a private school needed the local county's approval to expand to serve more students. This would have hardly raised an eyebrow had it not been for one particular detail: The school is Islamic, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Saudi Academy, located in Fairfax County, has long been under the microscope of its opponents. But for residents along the two-lane country road where the school sits, the debate was transformed from a local land-use issue into a heated discussion about the school, its teachings and the relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States.
For people like Pat Herrity, supervisor of Springfield District, where the school is located, this should only ever have been about traffic...
In August last year the county's Board of Supervisors approved the ISA's bid to expand its campus and double the number of students who attend, to around 500.
...Herrity says the additional traffic will make a small road seem even smaller and delay everyone. He says he voted against the bid. This is his area and the people who live here are his constituents.
People like Beth Parker, who lives next door. She was driving by the school and pulled over after spotting Herrity. She's mad that politics got in the way of what she says was strictly a land-use issue.
But scratch the surface and it's clear that there's more to the issue than traffic. And that was clear when the board met to discuss the academy's application for expansion...
One man at the public hearings, John Cosgrove, began his speaking time asking about the septic system at the campus. He ended it with an attack on the content of the school's textbooks...
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
This is an amazing piece of propaganda by NPR.
And if the content of these textbooks indeed says what the Mr. Cosgrove claims it does then how is this not a legitimate attack? If this is what this school is teaching then it should be shut down on the grounds that it instigates terrorism, not expanded.
...I don’t know what they’re doing these days, but when I lived up there they were flying the Saudi flag and not the US flag....personally I see Muslim schools as anti American.
>> In Northern Virginia, a private school needed the local county’s approval to expand to serve more students. This would have hardly raised an eyebrow had it not been for one particular detail: The school is Islamic, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia <<
Well, that and the fact that its neighborhood is the epicenter of homegrown terrorism.
Academy graduates have gone on to become great jihadis. What does that tell you? The former chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the insufferable and crooked Gerald Connolly, is now a member of the US House of Representatives. Guess what religious group gave generously to his election campaigns, both on the county and congressional levels. The entire situation stinks. This school should be closed and shuttered until the Saudi government allows the construction and operation of a Christian school on the outskirts of Riyadh.
Isn’t this the school that produced the jihadi who was trying to assinate President Bush?
Isn’t this the school that produced the jihadi who was trying to assinate President Bush?
Fundamentally, what we have here is an immigration problem.
If these Muslims had not been permitted to enter the United States we would not be worrying about their private schools or the content of their textbooks.
The argument against vouchers, charters, and tax credits is, “Well...Muslims could use the vouchers, charters, and tax credits to promote their radical schools!” My response is that the problem is that we have private schools. The problem is **immigration** of Muslims.
In my opinion, no Muslim should be allowed to immigrate to this country. As current visitor and student visas expire these Muslims should be carefully tracked and required ( by police force if necessary) to leave.
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
Are they teaching Sharia Law?? If so there is no place for that in this Country, and especially under our Constitution. Islamic laws are as contradictory to our entire way of life here as was the religion that King George tried to impose on the colonies, which was what led to our philosophy of “separation of Church and State”.
Theocracy is as anti-American as communism is, and people need to stop making excuses for allowing this nonsense to fester in our midst. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Yes they are teaching Sharia law, but it is not unconstitutional. The Constitution forbids the government to establish religion, it doesn’t say anything about private schools funded by foreign governments. They should not be allowed to operate because they are teaching treason and sedition. Imagine the government allowing a school to operate that taught the need to overthrow our government. Oh, wait, I forgot about Harvard, Yale and Berkeley.
Agreed. Muslim beliefs, which encompass all elements of their society (religious (obviously), economic, social, legal, etc.) are basically anti-Western, and seek to subjugate the West any which way. Period. They are our longest, historical enemies, going back 1,400 years. They shouldn’t be allowed to emigrate to any Western nation: i.e., Europe, Australia or the Western Hemisphere for that matter. I don’t recall us allowing avowed Nazis or Communists into our nations, I don’t see much difference with muslims, no matter how tame the majority of them may seem to be on the surface. Scratch that surface and watch what arises, not a fellow citizen, but a sworn enemy. Stop their emigration to the West and return the rest.
yup
I agree. We have enough thru prison conversion that we are stuck with.
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