DAR AL HARB - U.S.A. - OREGON: AN ISLAMIC ACADEMY TO OPEN UP IN OREGON, TO SHAPE MINDS ACCORDING TO THE QUR'AN WITH IT'S LOVE OF JIHAD

Muslims will open a coed high school
Tigard - Interest leads to the Oregon Islamic Academy, a first in the Northwest
by Maya Blackmun

Syed Ahmad's restaurant business brought him, his wife and five children from Texas to Oregon a couple of years ago.

He moved to Tigard to be close to the Muslim Educational Trust's prekindergarten to eighth grade Islamic School, where he takes his three children every day. But he told Wajdi Said, the trust's executive director, he'd take his family back to Texas to attend an Islamic high school unless one opened here.

Such mounting pressures from parents have prompted the Muslim Educational Trust to open the new coeducational Oregon Islamic Academy -- the first high school in the Northwest geared to Muslim students.

The academy's mission is "to shape the minds and hearts of its students according to the teachings of the Holy Quran and the traditions of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)," the parenthetical phrase an abbreviation for "Praise Be Unto Him."

Said explained that will come in rigorous classes of math, science, history, language arts, Arabic and other courses to prepare students to excel in college as inquisitive learners, and caring and moral adults who are proud of their Islamic beliefs.

"Hopefully they will be part of the success of America in the 21st century," he said.

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