Comments on: DC Area’s ‘Terror High’ Still Under Suspicion

By: Myspace Graphics and Backgrounds, Myspace Stuff

Myspace Graphics and Backgrounds, Myspace Stuff — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:00:09 +0000

Myspace Graphics and Backgrounds, Myspace Stuff...

Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)...

By: neocon

neocon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:21:22 +0000

"The allegation here, though, is that the school is fomenting a Wahabbi-style radicalism."

As opposed to the much more rational neo-con rapture-style radicalism.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:10:32 +0000

I wonder how many private Christian schools in the U.S. teach that their religious beliefs are true, while those of Moslems, Jews, etal. are false?

Most of them, presumably. The allegation here, though, is that the school is fomenting a Wahabbi-style radicalism.

By: NoZe

NoZe — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:31:56 +0000

I wonder how many private Christian schools in the U.S. teach that their religious beliefs are true, while those of Moslems, Jews, etal. are false?

My son has attended American schools overseas...I'd hate to establish the precedent in the U.S. of the government shutting down foreign-sponsored schools because they aren't sufficiently American. It seems to me that that would invite retaliation in kind toward American schools overseas.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:19:16 +0000

Since the Saudis have put their entire textbook collection online (Saudis Put School Curriculum On-Line), it oughtn't be difficult to verify what's there or not. The Washington Post wasn't particularly taken with the US Commission's report on the school: Washington Post on the Saudi Academy. The methodology of the study--which did not include bothering to get the current textbooks, relying instead on older books, many of which my office collected from the Ministry of Education in Riyadh in 2003--suggests that the study was actually just a polemic. A popular polemic perhaps, but not having much to do with reality. BTW, I've had e-mails and comments questioning the statement that most of the Academy's students are Christian. I can't prove it either way.