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⚫ | The '''Islamic Saudi Academy''', nicknamed '''Terror High''' by the [[Philadelphia Enquirer]] [http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/068655.php], is a [[high school]] in [[Alexandria, Virginia]]. The school is funded by the [[Government of Saudi Arabia]] and has repeatedly been accused of promoting [[terrorism]]. The school has 22 football fields. |
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Revision as of 14:31, 12 April 2006
The Islamic Saudi Academy, nicknamed Terror High by the Philadelphia Enquirer [1], is a high school in Alexandria, Virginia. The school is funded by the Government of Saudi Arabia and has repeatedly been accused of promoting terrorism. The school has 22 football fields.
Controversy
On February 23, 2005, New York Senator Chuck Schumer said, "We need to know if the Islamic Saudi Academy is another example of the Saudi government turning a blind eye to terrorism. I hope that the ISA is not another madrassa in the United States."
Schumer sent a letter to Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan[2] and another letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales[3].
Textbook passages
First-grade textbooks state "that all religions, other than Islam, are false, including that of the Jews, Christians and all others."
Eighth-grade textbooks refer to Christians and Jews as "apes and pigs."
Eleventh-grade ISA Islamic studies, a required class, textbooks instruct Muslims that they must "fight and kill Jews, who hide behind trees that say, 'Oh Muslim, Oh Servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him.'"[4]
Students must recite the Pledge of Allegiance as, "One nation under Allah, indivisible, with justice and liberty for all, Inshallah."
The Washington Post reported:
"Several students of different ages, all of whom asked not to be identified, said that in Islamic studies, they are taught that it is better to shun and even to dislike Christians, Jews and Shiite Muslims. Some teachers "focus more on hatred" said one teenager, who recited by memory the signs of the coming Day of Judgment [when Jesus will return to lead Muslims in killing all Jews, according to Islam]. "They teach students that whatever is kuffar [non-Muslim], it is okay for you" to hurt or steal from that person."
Kamal Nawash, a Muslim and president of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism asked, "How much longer can they argue that all of these people related to terrorism are just falling through the cracks? There must be an environment there that is tolerant of the kind of extremism that leads to this kind of activity."
Notable individuals connected to ISA
- Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, valedictorian of the academy in 1999, is being held on charges of providing material support to the al Qaeda terrorist network.
- Ismail Selim El Barasse, a 51 year-old accountant from Falls Church, Virginia, who served as comptroller for ISA for 14 years, is in prison in New York for refusing to appear before a grand jury investigating money laundering. Barasse helped funnel $820,000 from a Saudi company to Hamas, a terrorist organization.
- Two former students at the school were denied entry into Israel in 2001 when federal officials found they were carrying a "farewell letter" in anticipation of a suicide mission. One of the two, Mohammed Asman Idris, said that the September 11, 2001 attacks were acceptable because of the United States' mistreatment of Muslims.[5]
- Susan L. Douglass, a social studies teacher and social studies-text writer, wrote texts for International Institute of Islamic Thought, a now defunct organization (as of 2002 when federal authorities raided its office) that funneled money to terrorist organizations, between 1988 to 1994.[6]