Islamic Schools in America Teaching Violence/Intolerance By Brigitte Gabriel

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a report entitled 'Saudi Arabia: USCIRF Confirms Material Inciting Violence - Intolerance Remains in Textbooks Used at Saudi Government's Islamic Saudi Academy.' The report analyzes textbooks found in an Islamic school in Virginia.

"This is precisely what is happening not only in Virginia, but in mosques and Islamic schools all over America," says Brigitte Gabriel. "Most mosques and Madrassas in America are financed and supplied with their religious books by Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are inciting violence within our country under the cover of 'religious education.' Congress needs to hold a hearing about what is being taught on our soil and the American public must rise up and protest!

Note what the USCIRF translations found in the texts used at the ISA in McLean, Virginia:

The commission said it obtained 17 of the academy's textbooks through a variety of channels, including from members of Congress. The texts did appear to contain numerous revisions, including pages that were removed or passages that were whited out, but numerous troubling passages remained, according to the panel:

• The authors of a 12th-grade text on Quranic interpretation state that apostates (those who convert from Islam), adulterers and people who murder Muslims can be permissibly killed.


• The authors of a 12th-grade text on monotheism write that "(m)ajor polytheism makes blood and wealth permissible," meaning that a Muslim can take with impunity the life and property of someone believed guilty of polytheism. According to the panel, the strict Saudi interpretation of polytheism includes Shiite and Sufi Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists.


• A social studies text offers the view that Jews were responsible for the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims: "The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated (the Muslims)."

More generally, the panel found that the academy textbooks hold the view that the Muslim world was strong when united under a single caliph, the Arabic language and the Sunni creed, and that Muslims have grown weak because of foreign influence and internal divisions.

The books say it's OK for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts.

This Wahhabi doctrine is being poured with unrelenting hate into the minds of youngsters attending the ISA. Let us not forget that a Valedictorian in the Class of 1999 of the ISA was convicted for plotting the assassination of President Bush.

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