Talk:Islamic Saudi Academy

message: I don't normally post the  template on pages, but this one is just unbelievable. Upon completing this article, one has no choice but to think the school's teachers and students are terrorists. And the few sources mentioned in this article are horrendously biased against Saudis and Muslims. joturner 05:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As a resident of Fairfax Co, and a neighbor of ISA, I attest that it is fairly written. Great article, telling the truth about this school. The only thing that I would change is that it introduces USCIRF without explaining what the acronym stands for. Maybe that part was deleted or edited out.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.139.48.207 (talk) 03:29, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: I think we should make a seperate category for controversy. First we should have all the info about the school and then we should have all the controversy.MOI 19:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I think it looks a lot better now. Valarauka 01:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing some biased things 

message: As a graduate from the Islamic Saudi Academy, this article is completely untrue. ISA taught the students to tolerate all religions and to respect all people. While those citations in the article aren’t entirely false (some are just absurd), however, people only want to criticize on half of the quote rather than display it all. Our Islamic teachers make sure that if anything in the Islamic books is false, they would correct it for us. We aren’t taught that the Jewish and Christian faiths are "untrue." ISA is a Muslim school, and yes, Islam will be the religion that is taught in school. 
To those who believe that is a "terrorist" school, I just wanted to say that the ISA faculty and staff aren’t all comprised of Muslims. There are many other teachers who aren’t of the Muslim faith. The faculty and students all cooperate with each other, and religion is not an issue at all. Our sports team plays other private schools (many Christian schools). 
We are just like any other school, with the students getting accepted to prestigious colleges such as George Mason University, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown (just to name a few, the list is long).
--I know what you mean. It is completely like a normal school. They dont teach anything about Christianity or Judaism. Why would they? Its an Islamic School.MOI 21:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISA Graduate: My Opinion 

message: I cannot find any credible source whatsoever that indicates that, at any time, the Baltimore Sun published an article entitled "Islamic Saudi Academy is Criticized Again." I have found only two news articles concerning Ismail Selim Elbarasse, or indeed any person named Ismail Selim. Please provide full citations for the appropriate articles so I may double-check them and attempt to find a reliable source. Not even Google found it anywhere else. Based on that, I will be tagging the relevant portion of the article as a suspected hoax - freemuslims.org is not a credible source, and may indeed be... how shall I put it delicately... male bovine fecal matter. Captainktainer * Talk 02:03, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can't find reliable sources, go ahead and pull the sections; no need to leave 'delicately phrased' stuff in the article. Nice job on finding the Post article. - Valarauka(T/C) 02:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He's right. Lets remove it becuz there is no source for it. Besides the sources that are provided ado not seem to be reliable sources. WHO's WITH ME HERE??MOI 20:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable source 

message: --Where are  you ppl getting this stuff from? I hate to say this but i feel like everything is false. You know why? They dont teach about CHristians or Jews at all. Rather they teach about teh Muslim faith. Why do yuo not understand this. Go to the ISA website. www.saudiacademy.netMOI 20:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At this point, I have removed all sources that do not meet the reliable sources guideline (Speaking of, is it a guideline or essay this week? Have they stopped edit warring over there?). The only two sources that are even somewhat questionable for the claims made in the article are the WorldNetDaily article (which still qualifies, in my opinion) and the claims sourced to the school itself. If you are curious as to where any particular claim in the article comes from, simply click the appropriate references link. Captainktainer * Talk 15:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SOURCES 

message: I just removed a large amount of text by Cutedoctor that was written without Wiki's required neutral point of view. This article used to have severe point-of-view violations, and has been significantly improved -- let's not lose that ground. It would be appropriate for the Controversy section to have an "ISA Response" subsection, but it should be written in the style of an encyclopedic article, not a news article. JD Lambert(T|C) 13:33, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I had kept the reference, but I should have looked at it first. It was a link to a copyright-violating copy on the ISA web site of an entire article from the Washington Post, so I replaced it with a link to the actual Washington Post article. Also, the large amount of text I removed was almost the entire text of that article, which violated several Wiki policies. JD Lambert(T|C) 14:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ISA response to controversy and NPOV

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