What Virginia’s Islamic Academy Doesn’t Want You to Know
The Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax County, Virginia, is funded by the Saudi government and operates as an arm of the Saudi Embassy. It has been in the news this week following a report issued by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which found that textbooks used by the academy are filled with incitements to violence and racial and religious bigotry.
Missing in most of the national establishment media coverage of the story, however, is the raid on the school last month by state authorities after academy officials failed to report a five-year-old student’s claims of sex abuse by a parent and later attempted to eliminate any traces of the report.
According to a local news report [video] on June 3, the female student reported her claims to her teachers, and a report on the matter was drawn up by the teachers and the school’s principal and submitted to administrators. But when the allegations reached the desk of school director Abdullah Al-Shabnan, he didn’t believe the girl and failed to report the sex abuse claims to law enforcement within the 72 hours required by state law.
Apparently tipped off on a cover-up, law enforcement authorities raided the school on May 23 to seize computers and look for evidence after Al-Shabnan ordered the original report deleted from school computers.
Just three days before the raid, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to renew the academy’s lease of county property, ignoring multiple reports of the school’s promotion of violence and hatred.
This is far from the first time that the Islamic Saudi Academy has received unwelcome public scrutiny. Just a few days ago, the academy’s 1999 class valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, had his 2005 conviction upheld by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on charges that he joined Al-Qaeda and had plotted to assassinate President George W. Bush. Abu Ali was sentenced to 30 years in prison. As noted by Evan Kohlmann at Counterterrorism Blog, Abu Ali had joined an Al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia while studying at the University of Medina, and one of his Al-Qaeda co-conspirators was killed in a shoot-out with Saudi authorities.
Last October the USCIRF sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking her to close the school if academy officials continued to refuse to turn over copies of their textbooks to ensure that passages advocating violence against Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims were scrubbed. At the time, USCIRF Commissioner Nina Shea observed that since 9/11 the school had alternately denied that such passages existed, claimed it had already removed such (non-existent) passages, and stated that it was working on removing such (non-existent) passages.
And in April 2005, just a few weeks after Abu Ali’s terrorism conviction on all charges, Islamic Saudi Academy bus driver Abdelrazeg Abdalla lost control of his bus with 34 students on board. It careened down a hill and slammed into two cars. According to the Washington Post, police discovered that Abdalla’s license had been suspended for not maintaining proper insurance coverage and that the bus had bald tires and very little brakes. In addition to that, Abdalla had seven previous moving violations and a conviction for kidnapping his estranged wife and three-month-old daughter at knifepoint. He had also been picked up on undisclosed charges by the Department of Homeland Security and held for six months. The academy claimed in response that the bus had been approved after an inspection and that the driver had passed all required background checks. That notwithstanding, Abdalla was fired after the Washington Post began looking into the matter.
The Bush administration considers the Saudi government to be one of our allies in the War on Terror, and that support extends to the Islamic Saudi Academy as well. Cinnamon Stillwell recently noted an article in the Mount Vernon Gazette that reported 22 soldiers from Ft. Belvoir had recently graduated from the Islamic Saudi Academy’s “Arabic as a Second Language” program. This means that the school is not only being funded by the Saudi government, but also our own government. Deputy Assistant Secretary of The Army Dr. Lynn Heirakuji and the U.S. Army’s Deputy Assistant for Foreign Languages Erol Smith attended the graduation ceremonies.
No doubt we’re all grateful that our government is so adept at identifying who our enemies really are.
The Saudis own us. Like the Japanese, South Koreans and Chinese they own our debt. (Bush’s worst legacy: in 7 years, never vetoing pork-laden bills, driving us into debt during a time of war, and devaluing the dollar which did not help our trade deficit but has made American land and business cheap to buy. (The Saudis own part of News Corp; i.e the Fox News Channel. The Japanese bought Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building (later sold it back I think). Now, the Arabs are buying The Chrysler building.
The Japanese once spent 400 million dollars on our Congress. The Arabs are probably spending even more on Obama who would become our first Arab-American President. (Barack Sr. was 87.5% Arab. It said so on his birth certificate).
I reviewed my underlinings in Michael Crichton’s RISING SUN and the parallels with the Arabs are scary. From the paper edition: pages 215-216 and p. 270.
ALL Wahhabis Imams should be deported immediately as they preach treason to this country. All Islamic schools and mosques should be investigated by Christian Arabs (usually Lebanese) since Islam’s rule that it’s OK to lie in behalf of Islam makes Muslims unreliable). If their textbooks should turn out to preach treason, the schools should be closed down.
Newt Gingrich’s suggestion (on Hannity & C, Fox News last night )that we dump half the petroleum reserve onto the market would hurt speculators badly (I can’t believe how low a margin you need to pay (5% ? It should be 50%) to speculate on oil futures. If Bush announced this move, lots of pension funds would flee the oil commodities market which has been making them look good to their investors while hurting the nation. The price of oil would plummet and speculators would be hurt. They’ve earned it!!!
Sign Newt’s DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS petition and call your Senators and congresswoman. Their local phone numbers are in the front of the phone book in the government pages, or call The Capitol switchboard. 202-225-3121 This morning I was outraged to hear that we are SUBSIDIZING biofuels sent to Europe, it’s an IRS loophole. Enough! We should end the soybean and corn-based ethanol subsidy immediately. It’s driving our food prices up and is causing hunger in Africa, Central America and Asia. . We should import sugar-based ethanol from Brazil AND open Anwar and drill 65 miles offshore. (None of the oil rigs in the Gulf spilled a single drop of oil during Hurricane Katrina). I’m for protecting our beaches but our energy is in the hands of WATERMELONS, a term the Russians coined for those green on the outside and red on the inside.
We need independence from OPEC oil, and after the billions we’ve spent in Iraq, we should requst “preferred customer” treatment. We should remove our soldiers from Saudi Arabia if they don’t lower the price of oil. It’s time for hardball. The Bush family is so Saudi friendly that some of this would have to await McCain’s election. But it’s time to scare the Saudis who have abused our friendship. If we don’t remove our soldiers from Saudi Arabia, they should immediately be allowed to bring Christian bibles with them.
Remember that EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSMAN and l/3 of our Senators are up for re-election in November, and 4 1/2 months before an election it doesn’t matter how much money or how many perks foreigners have given them, angry voters matter more.
We should shut down this and all other Islam-sponsored schools in the United States. Any public official or employee who accepts money or any other gratuity from any foreign nation should be tried, convicted, and imprisoned. It is time for us to reject foreign influences, political correctness, and all other forms of anti-Americanism and go back to being proud, independent, Americans.
I can’t understand why we’re helping our enemies, the Saudis. Because of them, many innocent Americans have died.
Media reports about this school (and perhaps others), are so few & far between, and/or so downplayed, its a wonder anyone has heard anything about them at all!
PC is one thing, but stupid is another altogether. If these schools were of another faith following (ANY), the news reports would flood the airwaves as mainstream media pundits lambasted that religion, along with the schools administration & any authorities who permitted the school to exist.
The “hate crime” police are gaining momentum as they take free speech away from us, so we can allow even another balkanizing group to establish its enclaves.
I can’t understand why we’re helping our enemies, the Saudis. Because of them, many innocent Americans have died.
Before 9/11, we helped our Saudi enemies because we believed they were our only real Arab allies. We also believed that they had plenty of oil. In previous decades, Saudi Arabia and Iran were the twin pillars of American influence in the Middle East.
Now Iran and the KSA are the twin pillars of terrorism in the Middle East. Now we know that the Saudis didn’t have as much oil as they claimed to have. We know that Saudi Arabia is the hub of world terrorism, and there is currently a lawsuit against them for their support of al Qaeda and 9/11.
Some people still believe that we need our terror supporting Saudi allies to protect us from the big bad world out there. They’re delusional, or they’re creatures of habit. Unfortunately many of them are fairly influential.
Schools catering to muslims only need to be disbanded and shut down. We have plenty of schools from which to choose but allowing muslims to segregate and spew hate is only festering future terrorists. And they lie. I don’t honestly believe there is a way to be friends with terror supporting muslims so I do not believe we should be allowing them to bring their misguided lifestyle to our shores. Take back America, folks.
“Why is the Saudi-funded school covering up sex abuse allegations and using textbooks that incite students to violence?”
Thats easy. Thats because its an islamic academy.
These revelations by Patrick go hand in glove with the unfathomable decision of the US leadership to spirit out Saudi nationals AFTER 9/11/01. Further, the penetration & infiltration of Saudi agents-students-into our country runs apace. The people are held hostage to the dangerous nexus between US leaders-whose hands are deep into Saudi lobbying pockets-and the Saudi jihadi kingdom.
The leadership which will break this stranglehold-possible after a nuke attack-will most likely save the entire USA.
“I can’t understand why we’re helping our enemies, the Saudis.”
Oil — petro dollars to fund political appointees at presidential libraries, speeches in Dubai by out-of-office pols, all the rest.
I can’t understand why we’re helping the Saudis. Why are we subsidizing our enemies? Are we that afraid of the enviro wackos?
Drill here, drill now.
Don’t look to Barry to save us. His hope for change will be sharia taxes.
Yet we invade Iraq instead. Talk about Bush Deranged Syndrom.
Sandra M is correct. Especially the part about getting rid of traitorous elected representatives and imams.
How long can we play Russian roulette before something final happens? We are in a war with Muslims. They dispise everything the West treasures. When they take over, everything America values will be destroyed.
We need to get rid of the traitors in government. What we resolve today will cause our grandchildren to revere us, or to spit on our graves.
Sandra M writes:
And not one thing about our ridiculous appetite for the stuff? This position assumes that we actually have enough left to drill for.
We don’t. Here’s proof, from the government itself (all links go to the Department of Energy unless otherwise noted):
- US oil production peaked in 1970 at 11.3 million barrels/day. US production has been declining thereafter, despite a drilling boom.
- Not even the Alaska pipeline got us back to the previous peak.
- Consumption continued to climb after 1970, rising from 14.7 million bbl/day to 20.8 million bbl/day in 2005. Meanwhile, US oil production fell to 6.9 million bbl/day.
- Lack of effort wasn’t the problem. The number of US producing wells rose from 497,000 in 1973 (the first OPEC price shock) to 620,000 in 1987, but total production continued to fall.
The problem is that we’ve used up all the good prospects. No amount of offshore and onshore drilling is going to create new, big oilfields; we are left with the dregs. ANWR would produce only about 780,000 barrels/day maximum. The Bakken shale can produce maybe 200,000 bbl/day [theoildrum.com]. That’s about 1 million out of our 20+ million barrel habit, each and every day. They wouldn’t even make a 10% cut in our imports.
The US burns about 9 million barrels of gasoline every day, 9 times what ANWR and the Bakken can give us. Ever notice that nobody talks about getting rid of all the Hummers and Escalades and Durangos and Expeditions and making our cars all efficient? About reviving Al Gore’s Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (80 MPG full-size sedans), which would have been delivering about now… except Bush killed it in 2001? About making roads safe for people to bicycle to work, so they don’t have to drive just to get there in one piece?
We could do a lot, but the only things I see people talking about are the ones that involve buying oil. It’s almost like the oil companies own this country, down to most of the people posting comments on blogs.
All of you are just so ignorant. First off, America does not belong to any of you, and what ever happened to freedom of, well practically everything. Why is it that there can be a Catholic school but a Muslim school is not acceptable? the second Islam is involved immediately it is called evil and promoting terrorists. Muslims are not terrorists. they aren’t! Islam does not promote terror. Before you come on these discussion boards spewing out information your media has spoon-fed you maybe do a little research?
I’m not going to waste my time explaining Islam and its followers to you, however I will take the time to say that they deserve every bit of respect that you give to other religions. So there are a few bad Muslims, like there haven’t been a few bad Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists…etc. I mean come one, to label an entire race of people as terrorists is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard.
So many of you complain about how stupid your president is, well guess what every single one of you saying how muslims, saudis, and arabs in general are terrorists is just as stupid as the president you all claim to hate.
Turn off your T.V.s and read a book, if you even know how to read.
Anonymous,
Answer this: Name another valedictorian that graduates then starts work on attempting to assassinate a president?
What other religion believes it is ok to lie for Islam?
What other religion defends Honor Killings?
Get real dude.
Islam wants to rule the world at any cost, and therefore that end should be stopped at any cost.
anonymous_2
anonymous, read the bloody article and the hadith referring to allah’s apostle saying, “I have been made victorious with terror. al-Bukhari Vol. 4, Bk 52, No. 220. The fascist prophet of islam also is remembered for saying, “The gates of Paradise are under the shadows of the swords.
As for the tried and totally worn out race card, islam is not a race…
Bush et al should be ontrial for high crime, e tc for allowing even ONE Muslim to enter the USA after 9/11.
Instead of protecting us from the enemy Bush crawls into bed with them.
Q: So where is our government?
A: What government? You mean all those guys and gals collecting fat salaries, perks and pensions who call themselves Congress and the Senate?
The only way to end our support of Islamic schools is to end faith-based funding, private school vouchers, tax-exemption for religious institutions, and reverse court rulings, such as the SCOTUS one that allows religious organizations providing services with taxpayer funding to hire and fire based on religious belief.
We already have laws in place to help us fight treason, terrorism, etc., but this is America. We cannot discriminate based on religious belief. Ending comingling of government and religion would go quite a ways towards stemming the tide.
We can’t even stop an organization like the FLDS church that we know is breaking laws right and left and jeopardizing the future of children, so my hopes aren’t high that government will actually apply the law already on the books.
For YEARS, I’ve been doing research on the ISA.
I’m glad to see that the bus accident of 2005 is finally receiving major coverage.
The ISA has had multiple problems besides the textbooks. Yet, Fairfax County will not revisit the school’s lease!
anonymous user,
I agree with others that you should read the article, specifically the report issued by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (there’s a link on the word “report” in the article above).
An excerpt:
“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. Some passages clearly exhort the readers to commit acts of violence, as can be seen in the following two examples:
* In a twelfth-grade Tafsir (Koranic interpretation) textbook, the authors state that it is permissible for a Muslim to kill an apostate (a convert from Islam), an adulterer, or someone who has murdered a believer intentionally: “He (praised is He) prohibits killing the soul that God has forbidden (to kill) unless for just cause…” Just cause is then defined in the text as “unbelief after belief, adultery, and killing an inviolable believer intentionally.” (Tafsir, Arabic/Sharia, 123)”
That’s a clear OK for murder. Plain and simple. And we frown on murder in this country.
I am preparing a title to be placed onto AMAZON, AN Analog From ADAM to NERO. And I have been doing some reading. (see anonymous user:)
In ‘The Gospel of Judas’ Jesus tells Judas, “That people have souls, but only the Generations of Seth have souls that are alive and when their bodies die, they shall be taken up.” Now I donot advocate this notion, as to the truth of the matter, or not; but it establishes a problem of long duration. We all have our deficiencies, as with Sophia, whoes face flashes fire and defiled with blood ‘ as a slayer of children.’
The Assyrians eradicated the Generations of Seth from their population.
Abraham said, “Let us not surrender children, but offer sheep as a substitute.”
Who is to blame?The whole country is to blame due to a whole generation of idiots that have been produced by our public schools.They are now able to .They will vote for a socialist maoist that is promising them the moon just like a carnival huckster.If any of them could add the trillions that Obama has promised will never come to fruition.The USA is on the fasttract down the tubes as all great countries eventually do.The new world leaders will be the ASians and if the world hates the USA, wait until the Chinese run the show.
Please explain to me how the anti us drivel taught at this indoctrination academy, differs from the postmodern hate America excrement liberally dispensed at any Ivy League liberal arts department? Can we shut THESE down? Just a thought!
It is realy strange ,
You are critisizing this islamic academy for hatred and racism but the article itself and all replies are full of hatred and racism against islam,muslims and saudis.
almost in any religious teaching there is a beleiver and non-beleiver ,in bible ,torah they are full of scripture against non-beleivers
No need to give examples,just go and read them.
ti be honoust ,After i read all the replies i found that AMERICANS know NOTHING about islam or saudi arabia.
bye
Just read the reply from the saudi academy:
STATEMENT FROM THE ISLAMIC SAUDI ACADEMY IN RESPONSE TO THE U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
WASHINGTON, DC (June 13, 2008) – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) once again issued an erroneous report about the Islamic Saudi Academy. The report contains mistranslated and misinterpreted texts, and references to textbooks that are no longer in use at the Academy.
The Islamic Saudi Academy has provided an excellent education for thousands of students in the greater Washington metropolitan area. Graduates of the Academy have been accepted at many top academic universities and colleges in the U.S.
The Academy welcomes dialogue and constructive criticism, and has always had open lines of communication with governmental bodies and with the community. It has made its textbooks and curriculum available for review by third parties, including Fairfax County. It has held open-house events for congressional offices and the media.
The Academy has repeatedly extended invitations to the USCIRF to visit its campus, review materials and meet with teachers and administrators, in order to establish a constructive dialogue. But the USCIRF has refused to accept these invitations, which speaks volumes about the seriousness of the commission’s intentions.
source:
http://www.saudiacademy.net//html/pressrelease1.html
Nifo: Stop patronizing Americans for supposedly being ignorant of thre Koran; like most religions,it contains thoughts and ideas that can be easily turned toward violence:Islam,despite what our cretinous president says, is not a religion of peace;it’s a religion for warriors. I have no problems with that at all, until theydecide to imposeit on me. That’s the problem with militant moslems;they want to impose Sharia on the rest of the world. They might succeed against a coruupt and moribund West, but against China India and Russia? I doubt it.
I can’t believe you’re being so ignorant about this, first of all the whole Abu Ali thing is ludicrous. Every evil person has gone to school somewhere, does that mean it’s the school’s fault that the guy’s crazy??? And how many times have public schools failed to report things like abuse?, but THATS fine because they’re not an Islamic school. For some reason people are having trouble understanding that Islam is NOT the enemy Islam preaches peace people who take verses from the Quran and say it promotes terrorism or Jihad or whatever are purposely switching aroud words in order to make it suit what they think it should mean. Nifo is right and YOU deguello are wrong. Islam isn’t a “religion for warriors” it doesn’t promote violence. The enemy is EXTREMIST Islam. And believe me all moderate Muslims agree that Extremists are NOT to be considered muslims for they dont follow the key principals of Islam: peace, love, and devotion to God. If you guys hate the idea of prejudice and racism so much then stop judging people who you know so little about.
ok and btw guys my school has been actively involved in extracurricular activities with ISA for years they’re the nicest people in Basketball, soccer, Model UN etc. they’re always smiling and lending a helping hand and they do SOOOOO much community service plenty of their students have gotten presidential awards for helping their communities but does THAT ever reach the news? Isnt it interesting how the people who most strongly support ISA are rival schools and such, you know… people who have actually MET them and that the people who hate ISA most are the people who have never even spoken to a Muslim let alone an ISAer open your eyes people!! And stop believing everything the media tells you use your own brains for once, if ISA were preaching terrorism then why is it that at least half of their staff is made up of Christians and Jews?? Until you guys actually go and meet these people the way I did then stop talking because I can tell you right now that they’re normal kids getting a normal education, their lockers have pics of Zack Efron and they have posters of LeBron James hung up on their lockers just like other kids today they read all the same books we do like Harry Potter, study all the same stuff we do US History, Math, Geography etc. They’re just kids who are trying to lead normal lives here in America, but what has America come to that we deny these children their right to lead a normal life with such ridiculous claims of terrorism? Open your eyes people, you’re doing everything you’re accusing them of- racism, hatred, prejudice, your wanting to arrest them all- this isn’t the America our founding Fathers dreadmed of…
The islamic saudi academy is an abomination. To criticize western civilization shows frightful ignorance. the mohammedans know NOTHING about the street preaching and the great revivals that occurred in the Philadelphia age. These wonderful occurrences are unknown to muslims. The islamic saudi academy should be shut down immediately. None Dare Call it Treason. They are murderers, including the 1999 valedictorian. He learned his quran well. See my blogs; more comments on what an islamist truly belives. Meantime, another good website is:
http://www.kjv1611.org
Bible believers Bulletin has had some VERY revealing exposes of what muslims believe and what the quran teaches and the devil possessed Mohammed. He died without the LORD JESUS CHRIST and has been screaming in Hell for upwards of 1370 years!!!!!!!!!
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The islamic saudi academy is an abomination to the LORD JESUS CHRIST. To criticize western civilization shows frightful ignorance. the mohammedans know NOTHING about the street preaching and the great revivals that occurred in the Philadelphia age. These wonderful occurrences are unknown to muslims. The islamic saudi academy should be shut down immediately. None Dare Call it Treason. They are murderers, including the 1999 valedictorian. He learned his quran well. See my blogs; more comments on what an islamist truly belives. Meantime, another good website is:
http://www.kjv1611.org
Bible believers Bulletin has had some VERY revealing exposes of what muslims believe and what the quran teaches and the devil possessed Mohammed. He died without the LORD JESUS CHRIST and has been screaming in Hell for upwards of 1370 years!!!!!!!!!
LORD Bless:
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First of all every religion should be allowed to have a school. Catholics have theirs, Jews, Christians etc; an Islamic school should be no exception. The idea that any of the faith based schools teach violence and promote terrorism is insane. Any text of scripture from any book can be twisted to suit whatever the believer wants, and unfortunately these individuals turn and teach this false doctrine to weak minded people who adopt this teaching as religion. It is very common for the Quran to be misunderstood because Arabic does not directly translate into english, they don’t have words to describe everything as we do in the english language. Sadly there are extremeist in all faiths.
When 9/11 happened I was angry and very confused. I had a family member who worked in tower 2 on the 96th floor of the WTC I thank God she made it out safely but 2,996 people lost their lives that day and I wanted to understand why these crazy people called muslims did this. After much research and watching many videos from the library I quickly learned not only were these people not really muslims but what they were doing was actually derived from thier own personal hate. So we can’t always be so quick to draw a conclusion, you must look into the situation fully.
Christians have many churches, why? because when the doctrine of one does not suit them they migrate to another. In Islam we face a problem as well because often times if an Islamic leader is from another country such as Saudi where fathers teach their daughters they don’t need an education that they will marry and a man will take care of them type of mentality then they bring that belief system with them and filter it into the religion and this is false doctrine, this is not Islam. This mindset can destroy an Islamic community just as a pastor can alter the beliefs of his followers. With that being said muslims tend to migrate to a new Mosque just as a christian would find a new church if they didn’t like the practices of the previous place of worship.
Just as i could not judge every church for the practices of one or a particular race of people because a few of that particular race maybe crazy, we cannot put a label on the entire group of people and say they are terrorist.
Any school should be bound by the same laws regardless to religious preference of that institution, period. The abuse that was overlooked should have been investigated and reported within the time frame allocated by law. The school administrators should never assume a student is seeking attention by reporting abuse, and if the student is doing it for attention then there is something wrong in the home anyway that needs to be looked at if a child feels this is the way to get attention. As a parent i would hope that if my son reported something to the school about something that was going on at home that the school would look into. What if the mother of the child who reported this abuse was unaware that another member of the family was abusing her child and by investigating it this individual could be dealt with so they could not abuse them or anyone else for that matter.
We can’t allow the media or the thoughts and feelings of others to become our belief system. Draw your own conclusion, but make sure you have all the fact first.
Thanks