Pretty Hate Machine
Here’s a bit of a quandary:
A federal panel Thursday urged shutting a Washington area Islamic school operated by the Saudi government until the State Department can ensure its textbooks don’t teach religious intolerance.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom singled out the Saudi-supported Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Northern Virginia in a broader report that accused Saudi Arabia of promoting Muslim extremism and religious intolerance six years after the Sept. 11 attacks. The panel, created by Congress and authorized only to make recommendations, voiced concern about what the private school was teaching.
On the one hand, the Federal Government has no business telling a private school what it can, can’t or must teach. That ought to go for any level of government. On the other hand, here we have a foreign power, whose citizens are waging a freelance war against the US and its allies, running what is essentially a subversive propaganda effort on American soil.
Is it a school just because it’s a building full of kids and books? Or is it something else?
Actually, in this case, I disagree with you. If the school is receiving funding (directly or indirectly) from outside of the US, then the government (much as it pains me) has every right to monitor what is being taught. Remember, the Constitution is not a suicide pact!
one would think high treason supersedes any private entity on any soil.
okay, that’s the second velvet revolver song used as a post title in two weeks.
Someone a fan?
whoops, my bad. NIN song, Steve emails.
I was thinking “She Builds Quick Machines” from the new VR album.
Hate machines, quick machines. Whatevs.
But there was DEF a “Loving the Alien” refernce a week or two back.
“Head like a hole, black as your soul”.
Post title works for me dude. Good to see you posting on a regular basis again.