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Islamic Homework Closes Virginia Schools

LONG WEEKEND

Concerts and sporting events also cancelled.

James Joiner

Updated Jun. 26, 2017 1:01PM ET / Published Dec. 18, 2015 9:26AM ET 

An entire county’s public schools were shuttered today in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley region after a homework assignment, which had students write “"There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah” in Arabic, drew a national backlash.

Officials in the Augusta County school system declined to identify specific threats, but said they had received a massive influx of angry complaints from around the country. Local parents have called for the Riverhead High School teacher, who drew the homework from a curriculum that also includes Christian material, to be fired. Watch the video above for the whole story.

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