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A new Islamic advocacy group in Boca Raton is under scrutiny for its ties to William W. Baker, a former chairman of the neo-Nazi political party of presidential candidate David Duke who was run out of town last year when he attempted to speak at Florida Atlantic University. Local Jewish and civic leaders said Friday they were alarmed that the Assadiq Islamic Education Foundation, whose headquarters are listed at 831 E. Palmetto Park Road in Boca, had invited Baker back to Boca as featured speaker at an April 30 banquet at the Boca Marriott. Invited by Muslim students to speak...

A Montgomery County school board member will sit in on sex-education classes that have prompted parental protest and a federal lawsuit claiming an anti-religious and pro-homosexual bias in the curriculum. "I do take those concerns seriously, which is why I want to see it," said Steve Abrams, the lone Republican on the nine-member school board. Mr. Abrams, who is also chairman of the county Republican Party, is the only school board member who has expressed plans to visit the new sex-education classes, a school official said.