Posted on 06/10/2009 6:37:20 PM PDT by Steelfish
Debate Erupts Over Muslim School in Virginia
By THEO EMERY June 10, 2009
FAIRFAX, Va. — For years, children’s voices rang out from the playground at the Islamic Saudi Academy in this heavily wooded community about 20 miles west of Washington. But for the last year the campus has been silent as academy officials seek county permission to erect a new classroom building and move hundreds of students from a sister campus on the other end of Fairfax County.
The proposal from the academy, which a school spokeswoman said was the only school financed by the Saudi government in the United States, has ignited a noisy debate and exposed anew the school’s uneasy relationship with its neighbors.
Many residents living near the 34-acre campus along Popes Head Road, a narrow byway connecting two busy thoroughfares, say they oppose it because they fear it will bring more cars, school buses and flooding of land that would be paved over for parking lots.
But others object to the academy’s curriculum, saying it espouses a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism. A leaflet slipped into mailboxes in early spring called the school “a hate training academy.”
James Lafferty, chairman of a loose coalition of individuals and groups opposed to the school, said that its teachings sow intolerance, and that it should not be allowed to exist, let alone expand.
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Correction: only one they admit to.
Many residents living near the 34-acre campus along Popes Head Road . . . ."
Popes Head Road? You can't say these Wahabbists don't have a sense of humor.
How dare those property owners demand a say in things related to the safety of their neighborhood.
Expect that the feds will straighten them out in a hurry.
sooner or later guerilla tactics are going to have to be the norm, with our first Muslim president onboard, sharia law and expanded rights for Muslims will be enacted.
someone needs to pave the roads with lard.
Kinda like living next to a jail. Not a problem, until one breaks out.
Any sane country would not allow any institution on their soil financed by the Saudis.
The Saudis were sued by the victims of 9/11. However not a penny was paid and the case was thrown out.
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