As noted in the past, the Islamic Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia has been acting very suspiscious when asked about their curriculum. In fact, some members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom last year asked the U.S. State Department to shut down ISA Islamic school because school administrators refused to provide officials with school text books. Abdalla al-Shabnan, the ISA school’s director general, claimed that the school was being persecuted because of anti-Muslim prejudice.

Just because one time valedictorian Ahmed Omar Abu Ali graduated the Islamic Saudi Academy, immediately joined al-Qaida while studying in Saudi Arabia, and has been convicted of plotting to kill the President of The United States of America and to commit other acts of terrorism, doesn’t mean the school teaches hate. However, the fact that the school teaches hatred and intolerance of non-Muslims might have contributed to their students becoming terrorists:

McLEAN, Va. – Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.

Other passages in the school’s textbooks state that “the Jews conspired against Islam and its people” and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed “polytheists.”

The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.

The academy has come under scrutiny from critics who allege that it fosters an intolerant brand of Islam similar to that taught in the conservative Saudi kingdom. In the review, the panel recommended that the school make all of its textbooks available to the State Department so changes can be made before the next school year.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a panel formed by Congress, last year recommended that the school be closed amid concerns that it promotes violence and too closely mimics the conservative Saudi educational system.

The commission made its recommendation last year to close the school even though it had not reviewed the textbooks. Now that some have been reviewed, “we feel more confident that the potential problems we flagged before really are there,” said the commission’s spokeswoman, Judith Ingram.

School officials have long denied that the academy fosters intolerance. It has acknowledged thatliph, the Arabic language and the Sunni creed, and that Muslims have grown weak because of foreign influence and internal divisions.

The commission’s findings issued come a month after the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to extend the academy’s lease for its main campus, which sits on county property.

The county conducted its own study of the textbooks last year at the request of Supervisor Gerald Hyland, whose district encompasses the academy.

Hyland and the county never released results of what they had found, but Hyland said in approving the lease that he is comfortable with the school’s teachings, though he did so with a qualification.

“I would be less than frank if I didn’t tell you that the curriculum does contain references to the Quran, which, if taken out of context and read literally, would cause come concern,” Hyland said at the meeting at which the lease was extended.

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(H/T – Melo)

Idiots.

This “school” needs to be closed… permanently. No K-12 graders in America should be taught that it’s okay to kill people based on religion.

This couldn’t be what all Islamic schools teach? Could it?

It seems to me that if a school teaching hate was using the name of an established religion, adherents of that religion would be at the front of the lines trying to straighten out the haters and bigots at a school like ISA…

“The Religion of Peace,” indeed.

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