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Debate erupts over Muslim school in Virginia

By Alliance Alert

Theo Emory reports in the New York Times: "But others object to the academy?s curriculum, saying it espouses a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism. A leafletslipped into mailboxes in early spring called the school 'a hate training academy' . . . 'We feel that it is in reality a madrassa, a training place for young impressionable Muslim students in some of the most extreme and most fanatical teachings of Islam,' Mr. Lafferty said. 'That concerns us greatly.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).