(FrontPageMagazine) - Susan Katz Keating Reza F. Safa, author of Inside Islam, estimated that since 1973, the Saudi government has spent some $87 billion to promote Wahhabism in the U.S. and the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 30,000 children attend Saudi-funded Wahhabi day schools, such as the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Northern Virginia, where students are not required to study U.S. history or government. Former CIA Director James Woolsey told Congress: "Wahhabi Islamist extremism today is the soil in which al Qaeda and its sister terrorist organizations are growing." Much of that soil is spread across the United States.
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