Federal panel recommends closure of Fairfax Islamic Saudi Academy

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A federal commission recommended on Thursday shutting down a private Saudi school in Fairfax County if the school can’t prove it’s not teaching religious intolerance and violence.

The State Department should seek to close the Islamic Saudi Academy until it makes its textbooks open for public examination and cuts its funding ties with the Saudi government, according to the report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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