UPDATE: Fairfax County and the ISA

Yesterday the Saudis complained that the attacks on the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) was unfair and Islamaphobic. This was heard all over the Islamic world via al Jazeera. You can view a clip of the attack here. You can image the uproar all over the Islamic world. I'm surprised that there haven't been riots over it.

So what did Fairfax County do? They caved in and surrendered to the Islamists. Even though the ISA teaches hatred and bigotry. Even though the ISA has been sited by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom for the hatred they teach their students. Even though the 1999 valedictorian of the school, one Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, has been convicted of conspiracy to assassinate the president, conspiracy to hijack aircraft and providing support to Al Qaeda. They cave in to Muslim demands.

The efforts of United American Committee (UAC), as a part of an interfaith coalition of grassroots organizations, have resulted in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors (BoS) calling for a full U.S. State Department investigation of the Islamic Saudi Academy. The UAC’s Virginia and New York chapters have worked with the Traditional Values Coalition, ACT! For America’s Virginia and Maryland Chapters, Center for Security Policy, and Stop the Madrassa to demand transparency, due diligence, and accountability from local and Federal government. This coalition has made a difference.

On June 23, 2008, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, responding to public outcry, unanimously reversed its support of the Islamic Saudi Academy, and called for the U.S. State Department to investigate the school. Though the UAC applauds the BoS’s decision to demand such an investigation, the UAC disagrees with the BoS’s claims of ignorance regarding the ISA. Given the preponderance of available government reports, and the testimony presented to the BoS during a May 19, 2008 hearing on the ISA, the BoS only remained unaware of relevant information due to its own preference. The UAC questions how the BoS on May 19th, proclaimed their investigation of the ISA sufficiently resourced and conclusive, yet now claims the County lacks the capability to conduct an adequate investigation.

The school is allowed to teach hatred, but will condemn anyone for bringing this to the nation's attention. Outside of the principal of the school being arrested for obstruction of justice. Outside of Congress investigating the teaching materials of the school and finding them full of anti-Christian and anti-Semitic rhetoric, there hasn't been much investigation.

Oh yes. They are being persecuted. What they actually mean to say is that they should be prosecuted. And closed down immediately. They are a private school on taxpayer land. And that means the taxpayers can ask for the land back immediately.

Help close down the Islamic Saudi Academy now.

Join the United American Committee, Traditional Values Coalition, ACT! For America, Center for Security Policy, Stop the Madrassa, and a growing group of concerned citizens, in demanding transparency, due diligence, and accountability from our government. Visit Saudi Watch on how to help.

For more information contact:

John Cosgrove
Virginia Chapter Director
United American Committee
571-213-4496
Virginia Chapter