Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia makes small effort

The Islamic Saudi Academy has made a small effort to clean up some of their textbooks that have been criticized over the years for their anti non-Muslim content but enough intolerance still remains which will continue to cause criticism. 

I wonder why they even bothered.

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