Posted on 07/15/2008 6:01:16 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
By Jerry Markon and Ben Hubbard Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, July 15, 2008; Page B01 A Saudi-funded academy in Fairfax County used textbooks as recently as 2006 that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs, told eighth-graders that these groups are "the enemies of the believers" and diagrammed for high school students where to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, a Washington Post review of the books has found. Saudi officials acknowledged that the textbooks used at the Islamic Saudi Academy had contained inflammatory material since at least the mid-1990s but said they ordered revisions in 2006. School administrators said that they have been scrambling to change the texts and that all potentially offensive passages will be gone by the coming academic year. But, they said, teachers have always been told to avoid inflammatory material in the classroom. A sampling of 2006-07 Islamic studies textbooks showed that much of the controversial material had been removed. At least one book still contained passages that extolled jihad and martyrdom, called for victory over one's enemies and said the killing of adulterers and apostates was "justified." The academy, founded in 1984, has about 1,000 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 and is separated into boys' and girls' schools. It is the only Saudi-funded school in the United States. About 70 percent of the academy's students are U.S. citizens drawn from the region's Muslim communities. About a quarter are Saudi.
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I was being sarcastic
mother of all bombs
btt
It is not the weapons, Fairfax County. It is how people are taught to use them.
Indeed your words couldn’t be used to incite violence against the school, at least according to the Fairfax County spokesperson.
I have to laugh at this, because public schools are PC to the nth degree, and here we have a madrassa slandering other religions in the most clear and obscene language.
Does anyone doubt that these Muslim holy men are bigots?
While you’re at it, send the Board of Supervisors packing, too.
Yeah, I saw that. ISA bought Fairfax Christian School, and that's where they have Kindergarten and 1st grade now. I had already transfered out of FCS, but I lived nearby. All ISA was at that campus on Popes Head Road, but then sometime later they bought the Alexandria campus as well...
I can’t now remember the exact details, but I DO remember Mr. Thornburg (?) got raked over the coals by the powers-that-be in Fairfax when he was opening that Christian school .... nothing like their deferential treatment of ISA. Who’d bet the Saudi’s not only paid big bux for the Popes Head Road property, but pays well above the going rate to use the old Mt. Vernon HS. (apparently that’s leased annually, subject to county approval).
I am so disgusted with Fairfax County these days and now it looks like Connolly will replace Tom Davis who got at least mixed reviews.
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