Virginia Lawyers Weekly

FAIRFAX—Fairfax County supervisors are asking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to determine whether they should continue leasing property to a private Islamic school.

The request comes amid controversy about the Islamic Saudi Academy’s teaching materials.

One review by a federal commission concluded that some textbooks used by the school contain language intolerant of Jews and other groups as well as passages that could be construed as advocating violence.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly sent Rice a letter last week requesting that the State Department provide direction regarding the county’s recent decision to renew the school’s lease.

Connolly writes that the county doesn’t employ the linguists and scholars needed to determine whether the Fairfax academy’s teaching materials promote violence or intolerance.

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