Spun off of the Saudi-created and funded Muslim Students Association (MSA) over 20 years ago, ISNA is likely the largest single provider of Islamic materials to mosques in America.
For a sampling of what might be contained in Saudi-sponsored pamphlets and literature, one need look no further than the Freedom House report issued earlier this year. Using Muslim volunteers to gather Saudi-published or sponsored materials in more than a dozen prominent mosques across the country, Freedom House found shocking intolerance, anti-Semitism, and even explicit endorsement of violence.
Islam is a religion of peace and the Saudi's are our allies in the war on terror.
Quite true. In addition to anti-Semitic literature, there is also a great deal of anti-Christian literature.
Two books currently being used in American madrassas on the East Coast, "Mercy to Mankind" and "What Islam is All About" are currently being taught to grade, junior high and high school muslim students.
Those two books contain a number of distortions, and intolerant attitudes.
See a full expose, "Sowing the Seeds of Hatred", Daily News, March, 2003 investigative report by Larry Cohler-Esses.