May 03, 2004

"Look who's teaching Johnny about Islam"

From WND:

A top textbook consultant shaping classroom education on Islam in American public schools recently worked for a school funded and controlled by the Saudi government...

The consultant, Susan L. Douglass, has also praised Pakistan's madrassa schools as "proud symbols of learning," even after the U.S. government blamed them for fueling the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaida...

[Douglass] has edited manuscripts of world history textbooks used by middle and high school students across the country. She's also advised state education boards on curriculum standards dealing with world religion, and has helped train thousands of public school teachers on Islamic instruction...

...up until last year Douglass taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., which teaches Wahhabism...

See also the earlier article 'Report: Saudis funded infiltration of U.S. military':

Saudi Arabia has funded the indoctrination of U.S. soldiers and inmates to an ideology adopted by Al Qaida.
Research conducted by the Washington-based Institute of World Politics has asserted that Saudi Arabia poured tens of millions of dollars into spreading Al Qaida-related ideology among American soldiers and inmates. The report said the Saudi aim was to form insurgency cells throughout the United States that support a Wahabi agenda...

For more, see 'Military probes hiring of clerics'.

And, consider CAIR's Saudi-funded 'Library Project.' For instance, see 'Dhimmitude in the libraries: an antidote'.

Posted to TheSaudis at May 3, 2004 04:23 PM

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