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What do you expect? The idea that adulterers and apostates should be killed isn't "extremist" or "hijacked" Islam. It's mainstream Islamic teaching, taught in the Sunnah and all the schools of Islamic law. I know that pointing that out will earn me more charges of "Islamophobia," but reality is reality, fellows. This is just Islamorealism.
Oh, and by the way, the 1999 valedictorian of the Islamic Saudi Academy was Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is now doing 30 years in the pen for joining an Al-Qaeda plot to kill Bush. Surprised?
"Review: Troubling passages in texts at Va. school," by Matthew Barakat for AP, June 11 (thanks to all who sent this in):
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — 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.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."
Here is a hadith from Bukhari (the hadith collection Muslims consider most reliable) in which the Jews conspire to murder Muhammad. There are plenty more where that one came from. Here is a hadith from Bukhari in which Muhammad says that the lives and property of unbelievers are safe from him as long as they convert to Islam -- implying that if they don't, their lives and property are fair game.
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.
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....
The commission said it obtained 17 of the academy's textbooks through a variety of channels, including from members of Congress. The texts did appear to contain numerous revisions, including pages that were removed or passages that were whited out, but numerous troubling passages remained, according to the panel:
_ The authors of a 12th-grade text on Koranic interpretation state that apostates (those who convert from Islam), adulterers and people who murder Muslims can be permissibly killed.
Muhammad said, "If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him."
_ The authors of a 12th-grade text on monotheism write that "(m)ajor polytheism makes blood and wealth permissible," meaning that a Muslim can take with impunity the life and property of someone believed guilty of polytheism. According to the panel, the strict Saudi interpretation of polytheism includes Shiite and Sufi Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists.
See above.
_ A social studies text offers the view that Jews were responsible for the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims: "The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated (the Muslims)."
Typical paranoid Jew-hatred.
More generally, the panel found that the academy textbooks hold the view that the Muslim world was strong when united under a single caliph, the Arabic language and the Sunni creed, and that Muslims have grown weak because of foreign influence and internal divisions.The commission's findings issued come a month after the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to extend the academy's lease for its main campus, which sits on county property.
The county conducted its own study of the textbooks last year at the request of Supervisor Gerald Hyland, whose district encompasses the academy.
Hyland and the county never released results of what they had found, but Hyland said in approving the lease that he is comfortable with the school's teachings, though he did so with a qualification.
"I would be less than frank if I didn't tell you that the curriculum does contain references to the Quran, which, if taken out of context and read literally, would cause come concern," Hyland said at the meeting at which the lease was extended.
Ah yes, those Qur'an quotes are only incendiary when "taken out of context and read literally." Of course. When one puts them in context and reads them figuratively, they're all peace and love. One would think Hyland would hesitate to claim that an Islamic school, staffed by people who know the Qur'an far better than he does, was misreading the Qur'an, but he feels compelled to jump into the PC lockstep, no matter how absurd it makes him look.
When will authorities face the implications of the fact that such teachings are essentially mainstream Islam? I'm inclined to think never.
Posted by Robert at June 12, 2008 7:27 AM
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We know that all Islamic schools or Madrassas teach violence and hatred for non Muslims that is their religion. Islam is a religion of hate and violence. It is only the fools who think that it highjacked or it is a religion of peace. This is the greatest threat within infidel lands. The threat of continued Jihad. Teaching young minds to assault and kill non Muslims.
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at June 12, 2008 8:06 AM
Those rents in Fairfax County are pretty high. Gotta have those vacant buildings paid for by people/groups who can "show me the money".
That's all this is about.
And we are all screwed because of this singular concept of greed.
at June 12, 2008 8:09 AM
Islam has been hijacked - by every Muslim
Posted by: Stephen Gash SIOE England at June 12, 2008 8:13 AM
Islam = the religion of hijackers.
Fixed it for ya!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at June 12, 2008 8:20 AM
How do "extremists" hijack an airplane with "Jihad Airlines" written on the side?
Posted by: tanstaafl at June 12, 2008 8:28 AM
I live in Fairfax county, and for a while we had Palestinian neighbors who sent their two little girls (7 and 9) to this academy. One day, while they were playing in my backyard, I was appalled to hear one of them say that the "Jews must be killed." The other agreed that the Jews must be killed. The vehemence of their dialogue was startling. Needless to say, I did not invite them over any more, and took to wearing my Mohammed-bomb T-shirt whenever possible. They moved away shortly thereafter. It is past time to shut-down this academy of hatred.
Posted by: Rick at June 12, 2008 8:42 AM
"a Muslim can take with impunity the life and property of someone believed guilty of polytheism"
That's the whole problem with the shariah - punishments are meted out on "beliefs" or "suspicions". Muslims don't need Western concepts like "evidence" or "proof" to condemn a person to a cruel death. Muslim offense, however irrational or unjustified, is sufficient.
It brings new meaning to the phrase "Kill them all. Let allah sort them out."
at June 12, 2008 8:45 AM
"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."
Now, why isn't this academy being investigated for inciting hate crimes?
Because the above paragraph is worded incorrectly. To expose this hate speech and school of terrorism for what it is, let's change a few words to put it into perspective:
"Textbooks at a private Aryan school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Whites to kill gays and minorities, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday."
Tada! Now we can safely and politically correctly condemn the school as racist and bigoted!
at June 12, 2008 8:53 AM
Remember kindergarten? First grade? Remember the handouts the teachers used to pass out for each kid to color? Pilgrims, Indians, Christmas trees, wreaths, candles, pumpkins, fairytale figures...
I get this visual in my mind of the little tykes in this mainstream Muslim private school being handed something geometrical, and a red crayon. (As if geometrical shapes don't naturally occur. Creations of the illah, and all that...)
Meanwhile...
Like Robert, I want to know: How much context is necessary for a quote to be valid? A mainstream Muslim will cite a one-liner from the Qur'an or the ahadith, and not one word will be heard from his audience about whether or not it has been "taken out of context". I guess it's a mainstream Muslim thing.
Posted by: Abscedere at June 12, 2008 9:29 AM
It may be a private school but does Virginia's state department of education have no voice in this? Are there no licensing requirements? Are there no guidelines for what should be in student textbooks? It's a safe bet they wouldn't approve a textbook that praised the Confederacy.
Catholic schools separate religion and history.
at June 12, 2008 9:37 AM
So, the city of Philadelphia can change the terms of the Boy Scouts lease because they find their stance against open homosexuality among its members impermissable, but Fairfax County find redacted textbooks that still promulgate the killing of apostates and adulterers and rail against Jews aren't grounds to not renew a school's lease?
Why on earth would the county lease land to a private institution to begin with.
Posted by: winoceros at June 12, 2008 10:16 AM
Email links for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors can be found at
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/government/board/
The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors is Gerry Connelly and he is running for the Congressional seat that Tom Davis currently holds.
Let the Board of Supervisors know how you feel about the renewed lease especially since the new Congressional report came out.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at June 12, 2008 12:28 PM
Why is a school that is funded by a foreign government, that promotes hatred of the majority population and who's valedictorian was convicted of plotting to kill the President still operating on US soil? Would a school that was funded by the US that promoted hatred of Muslims and who's valedictorian plotted to kill the King of SA be allowed to operated in that country?This school should have been shut down a long time ago.
Posted by: Roxane at June 12, 2008 12:55 PM
The full report can be found at
www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2206&Itemid=1
at June 12, 2008 1:00 PM
Every Saudi supplied book on campus could be removed, but the oral teachings of hatred and intolerance will remain the same.
Posted by: songdongnigh at June 12, 2008 1:27 PM
For YEARS I've been trying to call attention to the Islamic Saudi Academy.
You see, I'm local to ISA.
Anyway, the textbooks are not the only concern. Check out this posting I did on June 3. Excerpt:
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. -- Fairfax County police searched the Islamic Saudi Academy's west campus last month in connection with an investigation into child abuse allegations.
A 5-year old girl told a teacher in mid-May that her father was sexually abusing her, News4's James Adams reported. Two teachers and the principal at the west campus put together a report and forwarded it to the school's director general, Adams said.
According to court documents, the school's director, Adalla Al-Shabnan, did not believe the girl's complaint.
[...]
Authorities said Al-Shabnan never reported the allegations of abuse to a child protective or law enforcement agency.
Virginia law requires abuse allegations to be reported within 72 hours.
[...]
According to court documents, Al-Shabnan directed the original report to be deleted from the school's computers....
at June 12, 2008 2:07 PM
"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."
What good is that going to do? The same teachers are going to be teaching. The text books might be changed, but what's to prevent teachers from verbally teaching students what has been removed from the books?
The schools should be closed. Period.
at June 12, 2008 2:18 PM
A local (DC Metro area) radio station, WMAL, had a call in and discussion about this school this morning. The first caller was a high school age young lady who said she has attended the school since she was little; there is no hatred taught, she is not brainwashed, non-Muslims teach there, the school has done so much for community, etc ad nauseum. Then I called in and said that if the State Dept was unwilling or unable to examine all aspects of this school, a school funded by the same Saudi government where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from, the source of Wahhabism, then the govt should treat the school as a terrorist cell. And of course, the hosts were quick to defend that one can't treat all Muslims the same, i.e., as terrorists, etc ad nauseum. Why do we allow such a school to function in this country? It's not as if the Saudi government would reciprocate and allow a Christian school in its country.
But we're cracking down on all those skinheads and neo-Nazis in this country, flying the Confederate flag - easy targets for the FBI, etc.
Posted by: HOV Dummy at June 12, 2008 2:20 PM
For anyone interested in watching the video of the May 19th Fairfax Council meeting go to:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cable/channel16/vod.htm
Click 'Public Hearing' under May 19. Its long but well worth watching, great efforts I thought by some of the locals, heroes, given 3 minutes each to appeal to a dhiminified council that had already made up their minds.
Posted by: PraiaFlamego at June 12, 2008 4:45 PM
PraiaFlamego - That video is disturbing. Not the comments made about the radical academy, but the demeanor of the council who seemed more offended by the citizens expressing concerns than the hatred being taught at the school.
Posted by: DJM at June 12, 2008 6:15 PM
The Islamic Center on Leesburg Pike is quite disturbing as well. Many believers there dress in very "extreme" garb. It is not uncommon to see fully veiled women in the area. In addition, even women wearing Afghan style Burkas can be seen in Fairfax City. What is also common in DC proper is the hybrid Muslima: one who wears Western style tight clothes, albeit "less revealing clothes," but ones with more surface area covered, but ones that are just as revealing, all the while wearing a full hijab. Thay are making a political statement of some sort.
Oh well. Back to reading Kipling. It's more entertaining.
Posted by: Kafir Nonbeliever at June 12, 2008 6:29 PM
PraiaFlamego & DJM,
The Board of Supervisors played the dhimmis on this one. Note that those who brought concerns about ISA to the Board were called "slanderous bigots" by Chairman Connolly, who is now the Democratic nominee for the House of Representatives in our Congress. He won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, June 10.
at June 12, 2008 6:31 PM
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