A study finds that textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam.

The Islamic Saudi Academy receives much of its funding from the Saudi government and teaches roughly 900 students in grades K-12 at campuses in Alexandria (web|news) and Fairfax.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said Wednesday that it obtained 17 of the academy's textbooks and found several disturbing passages.

A 12th-grade text says that apostates - those who leave Islam - and adulterers may be permissibly killed. A social studies text states that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people."

The academy says it promotes tolerance and revises Saudi textbooks as needed.

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