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Surprise, surprise. But will their Saudi connection bail them out? I would guess that it probably will. "Virginia’s Islamic Academy on Shaky Legal Ground," by Patrick Poole for Pajamas Media, June 27:
An investigation by Pajamas Media has found that more trouble may be on the horizon for the Islamic Saudi Academy and the Saudi Embassy.PJM first reported on the academy, a school sponsored by the Saudi Embassy, two weeks ago when law enforcement authorities raided it, looking for evidence that the school’s director, Abdullah Al-Shabnan, had covered up sex abuse allegations by a 5-year old student. The raid occurred just three days after the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors had renewed the school’s lease despite evidence that the school continued to use textbooks promoting violence and religious hatred.
Since then Abdullah Al-Shabnan has been charged with failing to report the child abuse allegations and obstruction of justice. A protest was held last week in front of the academy and it received considerable local media coverage, including from the Washington Post. That coverage no doubt played a role earlier this week when in a stunning about-face the Fairfax Board of Supervisors sent a letter to the State Department asking them to determine whether the lease should be renewed or not in light of the report earlier this month by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that reviewed the academy’s textbooks and found that incendiary and hateful passages had not been removed.
The school has issued a press release claiming that the passages have been “mistranslated and misinterpreted,” and saying that the “textbooks are no longer at use at the Academy.” That contradicts statements made last week by school officials to the media that textbooks will be rewritten and reissued before the beginning of school. Why would the textbooks need to be rewritten if those under scrutiny are no longer in use?
The textbooks are not the only elements of the school that don’t hold up under scrutiny.
Virtually all of the establishment media press reports have wrongly claimed that the school operates independently of the embassy as a private entity. Even Tom Casey, the State Department’s deputy spokesman, made this error during his June 24 daily press briefing:
QUESTION: I understand that you’ve received a letter from the — from Fairfax County asking you whether you could give an opinion on the lease of the Saudi school in Alexandria and whether the county should extend that lease, which I am told it’s worth $2.2 million a year. But — just, I mean, do you expect to pronounce yourselves on that? Is that something that you –MR. CASEY: Well, I think it’s something we’ve just gotten. We’ll certainly take a look at it and see what kind of response would be appropriate, but I — you know, it’s not something we’ve had a chance to really look through. As you know, this is a school that is incorporated and overseen through the county there. It’s not an institution that we have any sort of formal role in accrediting or managing. But certainly, we’ll take a look at the letter and if there’s some thoughts or advice that we can offer, we’ll certainly do it.
And State Department spokesman Nichole Thompson has also said:
This is a private school. It is not a part of the Saudi embassy. It is not part of a diplomatic mission.These claims by State Department officials make clear their position that the Islamic Saudi Academy has maintained a separate corporate identity from the Saudi Embassy. But a review of the corporate records on file with the Virginia State Corporation Commission finds that the Islamic Saudi Academy’s corporate charter was terminated by the state on December 27, 2004. There is no indication from state records that the incorporation has been revived or renewed, and the last corporate report the school has filed with the state of Virginia that we could find was 2004 — the same year its corporate charter was terminated. A check of corporations in neighboring District of Columbia and Maryland found nothing for the academy.
Shocked? Don't be. Why should they have to obey kaffir laws?
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at June 27, 2008 5:56 AM
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Uh-oh. If they crossed the IRS then they might as well hold a surplus sale, now.
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at June 27, 2008 6:13 AM
They'll probably claim that as a direct extension of the Saudi Embassy their exempt from the powers of kaffir entities like the IRS.
Posted by: aynrandgirl at June 27, 2008 6:38 AM
It's good to know the State Department's on the ball.
Posted by: rational at June 27, 2008 6:56 AM
First, there was the hearing where Gerry Connelly, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, called average citizens who opposed the continued leasing of the Academy to the Saudis, "bigots." Then he and the board approved the lease to the Saudis. Do ya' think it has anything to do with the $2.2 million going to Fairfax county?
Next there was his 180 turn around and that letter to Condoleeza Rice, where Connelly states, "As a local government entity, Fairfax County is not capable of determining whether, schoolbooks written in Arabic, contain language that promotes religious intolerance, or is otherwise offensive to the interests of the United States. The county simply does not employ the linguists and scholars required to make such a determination, and more important, such an act is well beyond the scope and responsibility of local government." Really? Are you sure you want to go with that one, Gerry?
Now we have Congressman Frank Wolf writing to Ms. Rice demanding that there be an investigation. http://homeland.cq.com/hs/flatfiles/temporaryItems/625Rice.pdf
Americans are waking up and taking it to the streets, guys. This is all very good news.
Oh and BTW, guess who contributed $500 to Gerry Connelly's campaign for VA state senate? None other than our own beloved Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR. Yes, it gets curiouser and curiouser.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at June 27, 2008 8:27 AM
What is the surprise? They have no regards for our laws. Or us for that matter.
Posted by: Exposing Islam at June 27, 2008 8:31 AM
Of course they are lying and spinning about the books again. I would arrest them for incitement to commit murder.
Posted by: Exposing Islam at June 27, 2008 8:39 AM
will their Saudi connection bail them out? I would guess that it probably will.
And who will be getting the rake-off.
Posted by: Always On Watch at June 27, 2008 8:40 AM
"Why should they have to obey kaffir laws?"
-- from Robert's comment on the article above
A previous article on the Saudis Above The Law:
"LONDON - Britain's head of overseas intelligence warned that Saudi Arabia likely would stop sharing vital information on terrorism if prosecutors pursued an investigation into alleged corruption in an arms deal, lawmakers disclosed Tuesday.
Ministers were told the inquiry into the BAE Systems PLC arms deal with Saudi Arabia could lead to a withdrawal of Saudi assistance on counterterrorism, according to the annual report of the Intelligence and Security committee. The committee scrutinizes the work of Britain's intelligence and security agencies….
"All relevant agencies were clear about the crucial importance of U.K.-Saudi co-operation in the fight against terrorism and the damage to U.K. interests -- and, potentially, U.K. lives -- if that co-operation were withdrawn," Goldsmith said….
The head of MI6, John Scarlett, told the committee that antagonizing Saudi Arabia risked losing vital intelligence.
"There were threats made to the existence of the co-operation (and) there was reason to take those threats seriously," he said. "Saudi Arabia is an absolutely key country ... they have turned themselves into a very important and powerful player in the world counterterrorism campaign."… -- from this news article
What "assistance on counterterrorism"? Every mosque, every madrasah, every Wahhabi preacher who replaces an Ahmadi one in the mosques of West Africa, or even in Europe (the Ahmadis, being milder, are good at converting people to Islam, but they are not good at keeping the Wahhabis from then taking over those mosques, and those converts, and turning them into the full-fledged, dangerous thing) that has been supported by the nearly $100 billion the Saudis have been allowed to spend in the Lands of the Infidels on spreading Islam also, of course, increases the number, and power, of Muslims.
And inevitably, many of those Muslims will wish to participate, directly or indirectly, in Jihad. The instrument of that Jihad need not necessarily be qitaal, or combat. Jihad can be pursued by other means than combat, or for that matter "terrorism" (what we have no trouble calling "terrorism" -- deliberate attacks on civilians to spread terror -- Muslims consider to be just another form of qitaal). Saudi Arabia does not offer assistance "in counterterrorism." It makes more likely, more possible, terror against Infidels, everywhere it spreads its unmerited money.
Perhaps MI6 operative has members so naive, or so malignant (like that Alistair Crooke fellow, the supporter and promoter of Hamas, who by now is quite possibly doing well as a "consultant" on the Middle East, and I'll leave it to you to guess who is paying his salary, and thereby earning his affection which, come to think of it, was already being offered to Hamas and similar groups even before his career as a "consultant" began) that they think the Saudis are "de-programming" terrorists successfully, and can help the Western world do the same.
Don't be ridiculous. All the Saudis do in their "de-programming" is bring in Al-Saud-financed clerics who tell the prisoners that the Al-Saud are loyal Muslims, that they are helping to spread Islam, that they are true to Islam, and any temporary assistance they get from the Americans or other Infidels is merely a case of using those Infidels for Muslim purposes, not of actually offering them real alliances or friendship.
And what the clerics say is, of course, true: the rulers of Saudi Arabia may be corrupt and many of them decadent beyond belief, but they are attempting (possibly even in a spirit of making up for that decadence) to spread Islam, to make Islam dominant. That kind of deprogramming has nothing that can be of assistance to real Infidels, who cannot possibly point to any Islamic texts that might lessen the hostility felt by captured Muslim terrorists for Infidels, always and everywhere.
Or perhaps the whole thing is merely blague, and MI6 is being blamed for what was a commercial decision. We want to make sales of planes and arms to Saudi Arabia, says BAE, and that's more important than that silly principle -- my god, get with the program -- that no one (including Saudi officials) should be above the law. In Great Britain, all kinds of members of the Al-Saud are seen to be above the law, this year, last year, five years ago, and five years hence: Above the Law."
[Posted by Hugh at January 30, 2008]
at June 27, 2008 8:51 AM
Hi Isabella!
Nice to see you posting again.
I'm still praying every Friday for 'the Defeat of the Jihad and the Conversion of the Muslims'.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 27, 2008 9:09 AM
Hi DDA,
Me, too! I've also been a little busy bee, out in the trenches. I was at the ISA protest a week ago Tuesday and man, are people spittin' bullets mad about what's going on there.
We will not let go.
We will not submit.
at June 27, 2008 9:29 AM
Here is a previous post about "our staunch ally" Saudi Arabia, which mentions another famous above-the-law case, that of the Saudi prince who used his private plane, and his diplomatic immunity, to smuggle into France 66 suitcases with cocaine (or was it heroin?). Apparently his share, as an Al-Saud princeling, of the vast sums that the Al-Saud help themselves to, year after year, from the nation's oil revenues, was not enough to satisfy him:
"the close ally..."
-- from a description of Saudi Arabia, in the article above
Saudi Arabia is not and never has been, and never could be, a "close ally" or an "ally" or a "friend" or anything at all except a mortal enemy, of the United States, as the most powerful of Infidel countries. Occasionally the Saudis find that their interests, and those of the Americans, may overlap -- the Saudis wanted the Red Army defeated in Afghanistan, because it was an army of Infidels suppressing Muslims, and the Americans wanted the Red Army defeated in Afghanistan because it wanted the Soviet Union defeated everywhere it chose to project its military power. The Americans wanted to push Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait because they feared the aggressive nature of his regime and his pretense of becoming King of the Arabs; the Saudis wanted to push Saddam Hussei out of Kuwait because they feared his designs on Saudi Arabia and the appeal of any rhetoricla attacks by his regime on the corrupt Al-Saud.
Saudi Arabia has spent nearly $100 billion over the past three decades on the Jihad to spread Islam. That money has paid for mosques, both buildings and maintenance, and madrasas, and propaganda disseminated in those mosques and madrasas that preach hatred and violence toward all Infidels; that money has paid for a vast army of Western hirelings, deployed in the capitals of the West to present Saudi Arabia as, precisely, a "close ally," with the real Saudi Arabia, the one described by J. B. Kelly in his essay "Of Valuable Oil and Worthless Policies," hidden from view -- as for decades it was hidden from American view by incessant Aramco propaganda. That money has alo been used to buy influence to prevent any sensible energy plan that might diminish reliance on oil from being adopted by the government.
Saudi Arabia (and Kuwait and the Emirates as well) needs to be read the riot act. Its rulers should be told they can no longer send money to this country to spread hatred through the kind of propaganda disseminated in the mosques it pays for -- or at least, not without severe consequences. They can no longer longer be allowed to send money to pay for campaigns of Da'wa, targetted at the most vulnerable citizens in this country (if Muslims want to conduct missionary work, local Muslims will have to do it, not as part of a geopolitical campaign by Saudi or other rich Arabs). Any monies that come from Saudi Arabia should be carefully monitored, and those who receive those monies publicized -- so that all those influence-peddlers, those writers of Op/Ed articles and delivers of lectures about "our friends the Saudis" and "America's real interests in the Middle East" -- given by those who cash their Saudi-generated checks even as they mutter darkly about "the Israeli lobby" -- and of course those who pay, directly or indirectly, for such groups as the Council on the "National Interest" -- which "National Interest" seems to be defined in one way only: in taking the and any such monies will be monitored, and the sums given public attention, or if a way can be found to do it, seized. There is no sense in regarding Saudi Arabia as anything other than an enemy, the chief provider of the Money Weapon for the world-wide Jihad. pay for these mosques, madrasas, or to such group, There is nothing that the Saudis can do to us. But the Al-Saud depend on us, in the end, for their own family's security. They depend on the West for petroleum engineers, and doctors, and every sort of expert to run their country. They depend on the West for medical care, education or at least the receipt of plausible-sounding degrees (a different thing), for the children of the ruling family's princes and princelings and even, here and there, possibly a princelette or two, and also for the children of the courtiers and middlemen and fixers who have made money from their connections to the Al-Saud, all essentially creatures of the oil bonanza, that is to say, of unstoppable torrents of money, where once there were only seasonal rivulets from wadis, that are the result only of an accident of geology.
Saudi Arabia depends entirely on the Western world for that medical care, that access to education, that fun-fair-cum-brothel-cum-gambling-den that Monte Carlo, and Las Vegas, and Marbella, and London, and even McLean, Virginia, and Aspen, Colorado (see that conduit for BAE bribes, Prince Bandar). The Al-Saud think they are above the law, and the British government, in choosing not to follow through on the BAE investigation’s results, has shown that at least they are above British law. Now we shall see if the scandal of the 66 suitcases, stuffed with heroin (or was it cocaine?) and brought into France, on a plane owned by a Saudi prince who now claims diplomatic immunity, will be dropped, which means that the Al-Saud would also be above French law.
And the final question remains: will the Al-Saud continue to get away with murder, that is to say with funding those who are hostile to, and who wish to undermine in every way, our own legal and politicial institutions because these institutions flatly contradict both the letter and spirit of Islam?
When will Saudi Arabia be re-dimensioned? When it will be seen as the primitive kingdom, ruled by Johnny-jump-ups who happen to have driven out the Hashemites, and to have defeated the Shammar tribe, and rule because they stand by the mutawwa, stand by the worst Wahhabis who, in turn, provide them, despite their enormous corruption and theft of national wealth, with the legitimacy that so far has allowed them not only to stay in power, but also not merely to dare to bully, but also to hire Western hirelings who help mislead the American public as to the supposed power of Saudi Arabia.
Cut it down to size, but begin by calling in Adel Jubeir and telling him not only that the “ally” business is long over, but the Saudi Arabian rulers, and Saudi “stability,” are dispensable as far as the American government and people are concerned. After all, in the end, if the oil wells of al-Hasa were to fall to those who are even worse, even more open, about their Islam-inculcated hatred of Infidels, we can – and would – seize those oilwells. And if the Saudis reply, as they will, with some blague about how they have “mined” the oilfields, don’t believe it. And if they further allude to all the money they can pull out of the American market, then they can be told that a great deal of Saudi wealth, especially of individuals, can be located and seized; that the corrupt behavior of Saudi princes can be easily tracked, filmed, and put on the Internet which would not make the lives of those princes any easier at home, and that there is a great deal more that can be done –unless they stop funding campaigns of Da’wa, not only here but elsewhere.
[Posted by: Hugh at June 23, 2007 8:20 PM]
at June 27, 2008 9:29 AM
Whenever someone mentions the IRS, suddenly the images of hell from the Qur'an spring to mind.
Time for the staff of the academy to find "spiritual" reasons for moving back to the Islamic paradise.
Posted by: tanstaafl at June 27, 2008 9:37 AM
dumbledoresarmy - did you attend that public meeting yet where you're going to ask hard questions of the Speaker about Islam?
Posted by: darcy at June 27, 2008 9:48 AM
Hi Darcy,
I'm running out in a few but wanted to ask you guys, does anyone have a list of the problem children, i.e., jihadi troublemakers here in the U.S.? I am working on a little project and need that information. I know a couple of years ago somebody had a website where you could go and put in a name and see what kind of mischief they were getting into. That would be helpful too. Thanks for your help.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at June 27, 2008 9:56 AM
And Connelly (D) is now running for Congress to replace the retiring Tom Davis (R). There is a sizable Muslim community in Fairfax County, VA as well as throughout Northern Virgina, so I'm sure Mr. Connelly's actions were strictly in the best interests of all his county citizens.
Posted by: HOV Dummy at June 27, 2008 10:01 AM
I will declare now that the IRS is the most efficient and effective organ of government in our nation. If we want to rid our shores of Islamism, unleash the treasury agents on them and this thing will be over in a fiscal year or two. lol.
Posted by: Bingo at June 27, 2008 11:17 AM
Isabella, I'm not sure this is what you are thinking of, but the most complete list I've seen is compiled by DC Watson and was posted here in March.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020450.php
There is also a list somewhere...I'll have to think about where I saw it...that shows all the lawsuits that have been prosecuted and are pending against jihadis and sympathisers. If I can find it, I will post it.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at June 27, 2008 11:33 AM
And State Department spokesman Nichole Thompson has also said:
This is a private school. It is not a part of the Saudi embassy. It is not part of a diplomatic mission.
the state dept is a part of the sow-di government it would seem and it not going to change with the sow-di retirement plan were retired state dept people that have been good little dhimmi and bootlickers and traitors were they get large contracts to speak with small bored groups of so called sow-di business men
at June 27, 2008 12:34 PM
Isabellathecrusader: Good to have you back and thanks for the info above about ineptitude in Fairfax County. Hard to believe that where that academy of intolerance now exists great Virginians like George Washington and Robert E. Lee might have tread.
Posted by: Wellington at June 27, 2008 12:55 PM
And Connelly (D) is now running for Congress to replace the retiring Tom Davis (R). There is a sizable Muslim community in Fairfax County, VA as well as throughout Northern Virgina, so I'm sure Mr. Connelly's actions were strictly in the best interests of all his county citizens."
Whoever runs against Connelly should make his statement that those who early on expressed alarm about the Saudi Academy were "bigots," and his other statements and behavior since (no doubt having something to do with Nihad Awad's financial support and that of others), should not be dropped. It should be put front and center in the campaign. The man who supports an Academy that teaches, in its texts, murderous hatred of non-Muslims. Those texts can be obtained and quoted from, and the whole unseemly episode, and Connelly's role, made the center of a campaign against him. Make it so that very few political figures in the United States will ever again promote the Jihad, or institutions -- such as this Saudi Academy -- that promote, through inculcation of certain attitudes and tenets, that Jihad.
Only by defeating such people, and on the very basis of their idiotic (or sometimes venal) support for Islam's various manifestations of the Stealth Jihad, can other political figures be kept steadily in line, as they observe what happens to those who pander to Musliims, and in particular, to the Saudis -- whom no one in this country, save the completely bought-and-paid-for, can any longer stand.
Posted by: Hugh at June 27, 2008 2:40 PM
"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave."
King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993
at June 27, 2008 4:30 PM
darcy
not yet. It's next Tuesday.
It isn't a da'wa thing as such - it's run by one of these 'O Pity the Pooor Palestinians [TM]' church outfits and bids fair to be a 'let's hate Israel' event (sugar-coated anti-semitism).
A very earnest Useful Idiot from Ireland who has spent three months in a 'palestinian' [sic] village in 'the West Bank' {i.e, Muslim-occupied Judea and Samaria] is going to be talking about his 'experiences'.
I expect to hear endlessly about the exceeding wickedness of those horrid Israeli 'checkpoints', and how mean the nasty Joooz are, to build a fence to try to prevent jihadis from fulfilling their divine right to kill Joooz, and how Israel is an Apartheid State and Zionists are Nazis and so on and tediously forth.
Unfortunately I have to pay $20 to attend, which supposedly will go to Christian charities among local Arabised Christians, but which (after reading a news item on dhimmiwatch about how charity money given to help Iraqi Christians ended up being handed straight over in its entirety to Muslim mobsters who were standing over said Christians) I suspect will simply end up as jizya.
Still: I'm going, because - if it's what I suspect it will be - someone has to 'call' them on it.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 27, 2008 6:23 PM
@dumbledoresarmy
Take along a recording device. Do you have a cell phone camera. If they let you video tape you can YouTube the results.
With lies and double meanings and such. Nailing these idiots is like making jello stick to the wall.
Good luck and be safe like a good dimm 8^)
Posted by: Im.mad.as.HELL! at June 27, 2008 8:40 PM
Thanks Eve! Very, very helpful. I appreciate it so much.
And Hi Wellington. I was forced to take a break to take care of some other business but I'm glad to be back too.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at June 27, 2008 9:53 PM
'I'm mad...' - unfortunately I am cell phone illiterate and the despair of my family thereat.
However: I am very, very good at taking written notes quickly.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 27, 2008 10:46 PM
I hope voters wake up and start applying accountability to public officials. Apparently, they think that helping immigrants settle is what accountability is all about.
Posted by: Old Atlantic at June 28, 2008 8:51 AM
Is there actually a republican running against Gerry Connelly? All I have been able to find out about is the 4-way dem primary. Who is running on the repub side to replace Davis? And yes, I agree w/ Hugh, we need to inundate that campaign office with fax, email, and snail-mail correspondence that gives chapter and verse on connelly and the saudi connection that Isabella has been digging up. May be the only way to keep a popular saudi mole out of (higher) government service.
Remember when if a candidate for local school board passed out fliers near a church it was considered a "stealth campaign"?
What the hell is this?
at June 30, 2008 3:50 AM
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