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Brooklyn's Khalil Gibran Madrassah Will Function As Jihad Recruitment Center
PipeLineNews.org ^ | August 7, 2007 | William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

Posted on 08/07/2007 12:34:50 PM PDT by johnqueuepublic

Brooklyn's Khalil Gibran Madrassah Will Function As Jihad Recruitment Center

By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

August 7, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - It is now clear why the New York Department of Education has been dodging requests by concerned citizens who have been trying to determine what type of institution the proposed Khalil Gibran International Academy will be.

Charges leveled against KGIA by these writers - that it will in essence function as a madrassah, a center for indoctrination not education - are proven by the school's own executive summary [Access KGIA Executive Summary Here], a document recently released under threat of a lawsuit by the Stop The Madrassah Coalition.

The summary is actually a manual for creating an Islamist vocational school, one in which every activity is planned around creating social activists with an Arab supremacist mindset, in the mold of KGIA's activist/principal Dhabah Almontaser.

Despite the New York Dept. of Education Chancellor's assertions to the contrary, KGIA will even bow to shari'a in its cafeteria, where halal food will be served. This is a clear incursion of Islamic religious principles into the public sector, a reason recently cited by Mr. Klein as justification for shutting the institution down.

With a pedagogy wrapped around social activism, the student will be strongly urged to get involved with the surrounding Arab community, within which a radical Islamist sentiment figures prominently...

(Excerpt) Read more at pipelinenews.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: almontaser; cair; islam; jihad; khalilgibranacademy
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To: johnqueuepublic

Let’s recap:

Date: Sept. 11, 2001
Site: NYC

Right in the BOE’s backyard.

Sickness.


21 posted on 08/07/2007 3:36:31 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Billthedrill
Yes the warning signs are myriad. Khalil Gibran School Info Center The above should link, assuming Ive done it right, to a location where all the authors' articles on KGIA appear. They have done nearly 20 over the last 7 months including a very cool video, check it out.
22 posted on 08/07/2007 3:41:38 PM PDT by johnqueuepublic
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To: theDentist

I figured that was his angle, like everyone I guess, I read the Profit, lol, a long time ago, kind of like Rod McCune poetry an adolescent daliance.

This school has been designed from the ground up with two ideas in mind.

1. Fooling the public about what they are up to, using a Christian mystic as a poster child just for starters.

2. Putting into place a mechanism whereby kids from an area in Brooklyn that has produced numerous terrorists, will be brought into contact with the radical social activists like CAIR, so they can be indoctrinated.


23 posted on 08/07/2007 3:45:32 PM PDT by johnqueuepublic
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To: Borges
Have you read The Prophet? I can’t imagine it appealing to anyone who isn’t a moody ‘sensitive’ 16 year old.

LOL! I read it at the same time I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Whuzzattellya?

24 posted on 08/07/2007 4:00:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: FARS; milford421; Founding Father

Ping.


25 posted on 08/07/2007 4:14:37 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
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To: Kolokotronis

Scan page 8 again...see what religion IS mentioned.

Workshops on Islam...


26 posted on 08/07/2007 4:18:43 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: johnqueuepublic

Page 8 of the report...

Workshops on ISLAM!!!!!!!!!!!

In black and white.


27 posted on 08/07/2007 4:19:31 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: johnqueuepublic

Gibran wasn’t a mystic. He as a poet/artist, a Christian, born in Lebanon, but emigrated and grew up in America.

But yes, they’re just using the name...


28 posted on 08/07/2007 6:10:27 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: theDentist

............why quibble......cant think of an artist who isnt also a mystic.......u say gibran i say tomato.......


29 posted on 08/07/2007 10:56:47 PM PDT by johnqueuepublic
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To: Borges
Have you read The Prophet? I can’t imagine it appealing to anyone who isn’t a moody ‘sensitive’ 16 year old.

As you know, I am a Roman Catholic.

For some reason, during the 80s and 90s every hippy-dippy 60s burnout priest or nun or "involved" layman I ever had to deal with in a formal extraliturgical setting invariably read aloud from The Prophet.

Prep class for the sacrament of confirmation? Sr. So-and-So begins class with a reading from The Prophet.

Fund raising drive for the foreign missions? Fr. So-and-So feels that a reading from The Prophet is appropriate to the occasion.

Mandatory pre-Cana marriage retreat? Why not have a series of readings from The Prophet?

Parish Youth Day? You guessed it.

Your description of the book is dead-on accurate. I've never actually bothered to read the book, but I am pretty sure at least a third of it has been read aloud to me without my permission, so I know it well.

30 posted on 08/08/2007 5:17:00 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
It’s a watered down very poor man’s Blake. Not the Marriage of Heaven and Hell but the Civil Union of Heaven and Heck.
31 posted on 08/08/2007 8:11:12 AM PDT by Borges
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