Plan to expand Virginia Islamic school moves forward

EARLIER...from The New York Times: For the last year the Islamic Saudi Academy campus in Fairfax, Va., has been silent as academy officials seek county permission to erect a new classroom building and move hundreds of students from a sister campus on the other end of Fairfax County. The proposal from the academy has ignited a debate and exposed the school’s uneasy relationship with its neighbors. Many residents living near the 34-acre campus say they oppose it because they fear it will bring more cars, school buses and flooding of land that would be paved over for parking lots. But others object to the academy’s curriculum, saying it espouses a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.