Commission wants Saudi-run school in Virginia shut down

A federal panel yesterday urged the U.S. State Department to shut down a Saudi government-supported private school in Northern Virginia unless it can prove it is not teaching religious intolerance. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom finds fault with what it calls the promotion of religious extremism in Saudi-run schools around the world. It leveled particular criticism at the Islamic Saudi Academy, which operates two campuses in Fairfax County, expressing "significant concerns" that the school is promoting a brand of religious intolerance that could prove a danger to the United States.

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