Middle East studies in the News

What Virginia's Islamic Academy Doesn't Want You to Know

by Patrick Poole
Pajamas Media
June 13, 2008

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/what-virginias-islamic-saudi-academy-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5251

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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....

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