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Virginia Islamic School's Expansion Met Protests

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The most recent debate regarding the Islamic Saudi Academy isn't the first. In 2008, members of the Traditional Values Coalition held a demonstration outside the Alexandria, Va., campus of the ISA after the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom asked the State Department to secure the release of all Arabic language textbooks used at the school. (Getty Images)
The most recent debate regarding the Islamic Saudi Academy isn't the first. In 2008, members of the Traditional Values Coalition held a demonstration outside the Alexandria, Va., campus of the ISA after the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom asked the State Department to secure the release of all Arabic language textbooks used at the school. (Getty Images)

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