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6/15/09: Textbooks? What textbooks? - Get Religion |
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http://www.getreligion.org/?p=13567
This is just such a shallow approach to the legitimate debate over Wahhahbism and violence. But wait, right at the end we get a brief mention of the texts:
Last year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal agency charged with promoting religious freedom in United States foreign policy, concluded that texts used at the school contained “exhortations to violence” and intolerance.
School officials rejected those findings, saying the commission misinterpreted and mistranslated outdated materials. The school now prints its own materials and no longer uses official Saudi curriculum, said Rahima Abdullah, the academy’s education director.
Now, apart from the conflicting explanations of the academy’s education director, I think most people would assume it odd that this academy in Northern Virginia would be the sole school — out of tens of thousands run by the Saudi government — not to use Saudi curriculum. Not to mention that the school has had a history of declining to turn over all of its texts to congressional investigators. Why not mention this? It’s not like this is a new story.
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