Fairfax County leaders have formally requested that the State Department decide whether the county should go on leasing property to the Islamic Saudi Academy following objections to what the school allegedly teaches.

With Saudi-funded educational endeavors proliferating throughout U.S. education, it would be wise, perhaps even salvific, to pay close attention to what county leaders specifically and revealingly say in their letter to State:

As a local governmental entity, Fairfax County is not capable of determining whether textbooks, written in Arabic, contain language that promotes violence or religious intolerance, or is otherwise offensive to the interests of the United States … The county simply does not employ the linguists and scholars required to make such a determination, and more important, such an effort is well beyond the scope and responsibility of local government.

Nonetheless, potentially endangering us all, local/state government continues mindlessly to make precisely such determinations.