Mclean, Va. – Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.
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Other passages in the school’s textbooks state that “the Jews conspired against Islam and its people” and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed “polytheists.”
The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.
The academy has come under scrutiny from critics who allege that it fosters an intolerant brand of Islam similar to that taught in the conservative Saudi kingdom. In the review, the panel recommended that the school make all of its textbooks available to the State Department so changes can be made before the next school year.
School was recommended for closure
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a panel formed by Congress, last year recommended that the school be closed amid concerns that it promotes violence and too closely mimics the conservative Saudi educational system.
The commission made its recommendation last year to close the school even though it had not reviewed the textbooks. Now that some have been reviewed, “we feel more confident that the potential problems we flagged before really are there,” said the commission’s spokeswoman, Judith Ingram.
School officials have long denied that the academy fosters intolerance. It has acknowledged that some of the Saudi textbooks contain harsh language, but says that the texts have improved in recent years and are revised as needed by the academy before being distributed to students.
ONLY IN [STUPID] AMERICA
actualy only in liberal america
I hope they don’t raid our school and look at our text books. For they will find that we are commanded and obligated to kill amolake.
It is my guess tha annon 8:33 and annon 8:45 is the same person.
a) 2nd paragraph, “the Jews conspired against Islam and its people” and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed “polytheists.”. keep the prize to yourself.
2) your apikorsis does not deserve a response.
8:45 – what a stupid comment. when was the last time a yid tried to murder an amolaki b’poiel? on the other hand, the muslims keep on doing it.
8:45am, you are such an idiot. You are almost as idiotic as the reformers who are banning kosher meat that they never ate in the first place.
Obviously, you are out of school for a long time and when you were you had no idea what was flying.
its time the world should learn that islam teaches thier adherents to kill jews. a muslim that does not believe that is not a true muslim. its not the way its tought in saudia arabia, its the way the koran says it. (see fitna the movie)
oil oil oil
idiot 8:45, the Torah never says you should KILL amolaiki, go back to school where you dropped out from, and get the posuk straight.
okay now everybody go vote for obama!
Do we want ANY religious school closed down or its texts controlled by outsiders? Remember, WE could be next to have our texts/seforim ruled “intolerant.”
to 12:19 hu?? not only are they to be killed they are to be completely wiped out men women children cattle etc’ look at the story of shaul….
Are there any groups claiming to be amelikites living in America? Or any hate crime statistics against amelikites?
These hateful passages in their textbooks seem far stronger than what students in other schools are arrested or suspended if they write in their notebooks. Something should be done.
However if we know this is what they preach, just because they may understate it in their next textbook editions, do we think the teachers won’t keep preaching antisemitic hate?
.there is no emuliek in our days, since sanchariv mixed the world, what was 3000 years ago who cares its hystary.
but in the koran it states clearly kill jews and jews are still around and they do it if you dont beleive it look it up in there koran you could buy a copy thats translated in english and go threw the pages.
and these americans(abama) did not put straight the line.
so far the muslems her condemm this statmen in koran kill the jews see when baruch husein president.
islam is the religion of peice – even bush said it