Behind the Veil at the Islamic Saudi Academy

by Jerry Gordon and Isabelle Cruz (Aug. 2008)


LThis Saudi school is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Christian.

Andrea Lafferty, executive director of Traditional Values Coalition organized the ISA protest with participation by the United American Committee, Virginia Chapter, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy (CSP).

Lafferty commented:

Christine Brim of the CSP said:


Rahima Abdullah, the ISA education director replied to these allegations:


A spokesman for ISA, a U.S. history teacher, David Kovalick, was shown this excerpt from an ISA textbook:

The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated (the Muslims).


Kovalick’s response was:


An Al Jazeera Then there were these additional observations from an Al Jazeera interview with ISA administrators and faculty inside the School during the June 17th protest:

report parroting the same line:

The comments by these confidential sources reveal a pervasive attitude towards non-Muslims that reflects Saudi autocracy and Wahhabi xenophobic doctrine.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, now in prison for thirty years for the attempted assassination of President Bush.

Classroom maps of the Middle East did not depict Israel on them.



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