By Viola Gienger
A Saudi government-controlled school in a Washington suburb uses textbooks that explicitly promote violence and intolerance of other religions, according to a U.S. religious-freedom panel that obtained some of the materials.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, established by Congress in 1998, said today it acquired 17 textbooks used at the Islamic Saudi Academy during this academic year after the State Department failed to turn over texts it had received from the Saudi government.
"The most problematic texts involve passages that are not directly from the Koran but rather contain the Saudi government's particular interpretation of Koranic and other Islamic texts," the commission wrote in a four-page statement. "Some passages clearly exhort the readers to commit acts of violence." Read more ...
A Saudi government-controlled school in a Washington suburb uses textbooks that explicitly promote violence and intolerance of other religions, according to a U.S. religious-freedom panel that obtained some of the materials.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, established by Congress in 1998, said today it acquired 17 textbooks used at the Islamic Saudi Academy during this academic year after the State Department failed to turn over texts it had received from the Saudi government.
"The most problematic texts involve passages that are not directly from the Koran but rather contain the Saudi government's particular interpretation of Koranic and other Islamic texts," the commission wrote in a four-page statement. "Some passages clearly exhort the readers to commit acts of violence." Read more ...
Source: Bloomberg
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