Posted on 06/13/2008 10:17:52 AM PDT by forkinsocket
State Department officials said Thursday they have no plans to close a Saudi-financed Islamic school in Northern Virginia that has failed to eliminate violent and intolerant language in textbooks.
"They told us they would revise the textbooks by the 2008 school year," State Department spokesman Rob McInturff said. "We don't plan to take additional action apart from the discussions that have been going on with the Saudi government."
Results released Wednesday from a federal investigation into the Islamic Saudi Academy - with campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax - found textbooks at the 900-student private school had passages that blame the Jews for "discord" and say it is sometimes permissible to kill non-Muslims.
The investigation by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom focused on 17 textbooks used during the last school year and obtained from independent sources.
The panel, formed by Congress, last year recommended the State Department close the school, though members had not yet reviewed the textbooks. The commission said the Foreign Missions Act gives the Secretary of State authority to "require a foreign mission to divest itself of or forgo the use of property and to order it to close."
State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos on Thursday cited the Saudi government's 2006 acknowledgement of a need to revise its textbooks and agreement to do so "in time for the start of the 2008 school year," which starts this fall.
"For several years we've engaged the Saudi government on the need to eliminate intolerant references toward other religious groups in textbooks and other educational materials used in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere," Mr. Gallegos said. "And we'll continue to work with the Saudi government in efforts to revise the textbooks."
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The State Department is a hotbed of anti-Americanism. Joe McCarthy was right.
Proving again that the terrorists are only killing the Jews, Christians,
and Americans that the US State Dept. wants murdered.
I tell you, we’ve been infiltrated and sold out. I knew it would come to this, just not in my lifetime. I’m glad I don’t have that much longer in this hellhole.
Oh they’ll adjust the books alright. They’ll add State Department Officials that nose around to the Death List.
Still skirting the fundamental question of why they are even here, why they need schools and why we tolerate their shiite.
The ones in Minnesota are funded by state taxpayers.
Keep it open and put the parents and children under surveillance.
Good way to find terrorist sleeper cells.
Geez Loiuse! I grew up in Springfield, VA, not too far from Rt. 1 and Alexandria there and I can’t even fathom what’s going on there! We were practically considered country folk...not really...
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