Friday, June 13, 2008

Hatred Promoted At Islamic School--With A Saudi Flavor

From The New York Sun
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is singling out a Saudi-run school in northern Virginia for teaching its students Islamic supremacism.

The bipartisan commission, which obtained copies of the Islamic Saudi Academy's textbooks from a congressional office and other private sources after the State Department's refusal to hand them over, released a summary of its findings yesterday. The move comes ahead of a deadline next month, agreed on by America and Saudi Arabia, for the school to revise its textbooks and delete references that "disparage Muslims or non-Muslims or that promote hatred toward other religions or religious groups."

According to the commission's report, however, the textbooks the academy is using this school year are exhorting Muslims to violence.

"The most problematic texts involve passages that are not directly from the Koran but rather contain the Saudi government's particular interpretation of Koranic and other Islamic texts," the report says.

Some examples cited include a 12th-grade textbook in Koranic interpretation that says it is "permissible to kill an apostate, an adulterer or someone who has murdered a believer intentionally."

Such beliefs are hallmarks of the Salafi strain of Sunni Islam, which is Saudi Arabia's state religion. The religious interpretation that says it is permissible to steal from or kill apostates is part of the philosophy of Takfir, which distinguishes between true believers and non-believers and permits the believer to violate domestic laws in order to defend the faith. [Emphasis added]

Imagine if the Saudis were not our allies?

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

ACT has the video of the Fairfax County public hearing on renewing the school lease, and it's shocking, infuriating, dhimmis--rude dhimmis at that, heroic patriots, the whole deal on display, amazing.

Also noteworthy, the press release on the Commission's website notes the refusal of both Saudi Arabia and the U.S. State Dept to cooperate and give the Commission the textbooks for review (fortunately they managed to get the books from a congressional office).

To me, this is one of the most significant (and underreported) stories of the year, of the counterjihad, a real turning point.

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah, another thing I liked about that report is that they zeroed in on the unique way that Saudis have for including Christians, Jews, agnostics, atheists, Shia Muslims, Sufis, and others within the definition of "polytheists." A lot of people think that there are polytheists (like Hindus) in contrast to some class of "People of the Book" (like Christians and Jews) or other sects of Islam, but don't realize that the Saudis and other Salafists have an usual way (solidly grounded in the Sunnah, though) to make all the People of the Book, that could ordinarily qualify for dhimmi status (not that that's all that great) be relegated to the polytheist group (who aren't even given that chance for dhimmi status).

Anonymous said...

This post doesn't mention it, but the State Dept. also said that despite this Commissions findings it has no plans to not allow this school to remain open--but will continue to talk (as they have done for "several years") w/the Saudis about the need to change their textbooks.

Daled Amos said...

Cindy,

I can't have you writing all of the comments to this post :-)

There is an article on Pajamas Media entitled: What Virginia’s Islamic Academy Doesn’t Want You to Know who claims that besides the issue of inciting hatred--there have also been allegations of sexual abuse.