Posted on 10/19/2007 1:19:16 PM PDT by xtinct
A federal panel Thursday urged shutting a Washington area Islamic school operated by the Saudi government until the State Department can ensure its textbooks don't teach religious intolerance.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom singled out the Saudi-supported Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Northern Virginia in a broader report that accused Saudi Arabia of promoting Muslim extremism and religious intolerance six years after the Sept. 11 attacks. The panel, created by Congress and authorized only to make recommendations, voiced concern about what the private school was teaching.
The commission report did not make specific criticisms of the school's curriculum. Commission deputy director Tad Stahnke said the panel wrote to Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, who is chairman of the academy's board of directors, asking to see the school's textbooks but got no answer. Stahnke said the commission did not try to contact ISA staff.
Commissioner Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said he knew enough about ISA's textbooks to be "very disturbed that this is going on within eyesight of the capital."
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Islam, the religion of violins.
“Islam, the religion of violins.”
LOL. I guess you think that Muslims are musically inclined.
The Saudi’s already own all the politicians in Washington...nothing will happen.
That we ever allowed this religion to set up training grounds in the US indicates we may deserve what’s likely to start happening (here) because of it...
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Our Friends, the Saudi’s.
If the closure of this school will in any way negatively effect business and/or dollar interests in Saudi, be sure it won’t happen.
"The hour of judgment will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them."
Only the belly dancers.
I fixed the sentence for you you had the word and in the wrong place.
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