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Documents creation time: <start_target>05/01/1998 09:13:00</start_target> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast <start_source>overtaking</start_source> or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>05/01/1998 09:13:00</end_target> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast <end_source>overtaking</end_source> or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>05/01/1998 09:13:00</start_target> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast <end_source>overtaking</end_source> or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: <start_source>05/01/1998 09:13:00</start_source> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will <start_target>create</start_target> the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: <start_source>05/01/1998 09:13:00</start_source> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will <end_target>create</end_target> the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: <end_source>05/01/1998 09:13:00</end_source> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will <start_target>create</start_target> the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: <end_source>05/01/1998 09:13:00</end_source> MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will <end_target>create</end_target> the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically <end_target>implemented</end_target>, an intranet solution will <end_source>provide</end_source> the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically <start_target>implemented</start_target>, an intranet solution will <start_source>provide</start_source> the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically <end_target>implemented</end_target>, an intranet solution will <start_source>provide</start_source> the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically <start_target>implemented</start_target>, an intranet solution will <end_source>provide</end_source> the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to <end_target>include</end_target> every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to <start_source>create</start_source> new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to <start_target>include</start_target> every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to <end_source>create</end_source> new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to <end_target>include</end_target> every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to <end_source>create</end_source> new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 05/01/1998 09:13:00 MALAYSIA's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time. With the convergence of communications and information technologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space. The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to <start_target>include</start_target> every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to <start_source>create</start_source> new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen. All in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <end_source>Tomorrow</end_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <end_target>tomorrow</end_target>'s vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <end_source>Tomorrow</end_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <start_target>tomorrow</start_target>'s vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <start_source>Tomorrow</start_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <start_target>tomorrow</start_target>'s vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <start_source>Tomorrow</start_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <end_target>tomorrow</end_target>'s vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now <start_target>located</start_target> in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <start_source>funded</start_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now <end_target>located</end_target> in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <end_source>funded</end_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now <start_target>located</start_target> in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <end_source>funded</end_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now <end_target>located</end_target> in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <start_source>funded</start_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <start_target>vote</start_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will <end_source>decide</end_source> whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <start_target>vote</start_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will <start_source>decide</start_source> whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <end_target>vote</end_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will <start_source>decide</start_source> whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <end_target>vote</end_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will <end_source>decide</end_source> whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. <start_source>Now</start_source> critics of the academy are <end_target>targeting</end_target> its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. <end_source>Now</end_source> critics of the academy are <start_target>targeting</start_target> its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. <start_source>Now</start_source> critics of the academy are <start_target>targeting</start_target> its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. <end_source>Now</end_source> critics of the academy are <end_target>targeting</end_target> its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. <end_source>According</end_source> to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. <start_source>According</start_source> to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. <end_source>According</end_source> to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. <start_source>According</start_source> to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_target>hearing</start_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, <start_source>said</start_source> the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_target>hearing</end_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, <start_source>said</start_source> the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_target>hearing</start_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, <end_source>said</end_source> the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_target>hearing</end_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, <end_source>said</end_source> the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some <start_source>say</start_source>, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some <start_source>say</start_source>, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some <end_source>say</end_source>, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some <end_source>say</end_source>, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <start_source>dropped</start_source> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area <end_target>became</end_target> alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <end_source>dropped</end_source> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area <end_target>became</end_target> alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <end_source>dropped</end_source> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area <start_target>became</start_target> alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <end_source>funded</end_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <start_source>funded</start_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <end_source>funded</end_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, <start_source>funded</start_source> by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_source>hearing</end_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_source>hearing</start_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_source>hearing</start_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_source>hearing</end_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <end_source>said</end_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, <end_target>complained</end_target> about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <start_source>said</start_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, <end_target>complained</end_target> about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <end_source>said</end_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, <start_target>complained</start_target> about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <end_source>tomorrow</end_source>'s <end_target>vote</end_target> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <start_source>tomorrow</start_source>'s <start_target>vote</start_target> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <start_source>tomorrow</start_source>'s <end_target>vote</end_target> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but <end_source>tomorrow</end_source>'s <start_target>vote</start_target> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials <start_source>say</start_source> they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials <end_source>say</end_source> they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials <end_source>say</end_source> they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials <start_source>say</start_source> they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <end_source>Tomorrow</end_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <end_target>vote</end_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <start_source>Tomorrow</start_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <start_target>vote</start_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <end_source>Tomorrow</end_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <start_target>vote</start_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 <start_source>Tomorrow</start_source> the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <end_target>vote</end_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute <end_source>says</end_source> it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute <end_source>says</end_source> it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute <start_source>says</start_source> it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_target>hearing</start_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <start_source>said</start_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_target>hearing</end_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <end_source>said</end_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_target>hearing</start_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <end_source>said</end_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_target>hearing</end_target> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents <start_source>said</start_source> the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <start_target>vote</start_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's <end_source>vote</end_source> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <end_target>vote</end_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's <end_source>vote</end_source> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <start_target>vote</start_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's <start_source>vote</start_source> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will <end_target>vote</end_target> on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's <start_source>vote</start_source> has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <end_source>denounced</end_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then <start_target>shifted</start_target>. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <end_source>denounced</end_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then <end_target>shifted</end_target>. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <start_source>denounced</start_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then <end_target>shifted</end_target>. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <start_target>dropped</start_target> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <start_source>denounced</start_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <end_target>dropped</end_target> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <start_source>denounced</start_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <start_target>dropped</start_target> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <end_source>denounced</end_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <end_target>dropped</end_target> off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <end_source>denounced</end_source> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_source>hearing</start_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the <end_target>split</end_target> in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <start_source>hearing</start_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the <start_target>split</start_target> in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_source>hearing</end_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the <start_target>split</start_target> in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public <end_source>hearing</end_source> on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the <end_target>split</end_target> in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <start_source>dropped</start_source> off leaflets <end_target>warning</end_target> the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <end_source>dropped</end_source> off leaflets <start_target>warning</start_target> the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <end_source>dropped</end_source> off leaflets <end_target>warning</end_target> the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen <start_source>says</start_source> he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen <end_source>says</end_source> he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980303</end_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen <start_source>says</start_source> he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980303</start_target> Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen <end_source>says</end_source> he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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Documents creation time: 19980303 Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudon county, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn village, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly laid out the red carpet for their would be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshalll has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudon county. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would <end_source>take</end_source> thirty-five hundred if it <end_target>had</end_target> the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudon county, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty million dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, a- at a very deep level in our culture, um I think, a sense of, of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the fellowship church and school in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious, supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating the human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors. I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudon county embrace religious and human freedom. Loudon county officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudon county's collision with a new reality in America that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudon county, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshalll.

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