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NY principal quits over 'Intifada' shirts
THE JERUSALEM POST ^ | Aug. 11 | AP

Posted on 08/11/2007 8:49:55 PM PDT by indcons

The embattled principal of an Arabic-themed public school in New York resigned Friday after coming under fire for failing to condemn the use of the highly charged word "intifada" on T-shirts.

Debbie Almontaser was supposed to oversee the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn. The city's Department of Education says it remains committed to launching the school in September.

Almontaser's departure comes on the heels of an editorial flaying in the New York Post and an article this week that connected Almontaser to Arab Women Active in Art and Media.

That group is selling shirts imprinted with the words "Intifada NYC." It shares office space with the Saba Association of American Yemenis, which counts Almontaser among its board members.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: almontaser; brooklyn; intifadanyc; islam; khalilgibranacademy; madrassa; newyork; nyc; terrorism
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1 posted on 08/11/2007 8:49:57 PM PDT by indcons
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To: indcons

They laugh in our faces as they undermine our country with the help of the DemocRATS and the ACLU.


2 posted on 08/11/2007 8:55:29 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: indcons

She may quit, but her schools propaganda goes on.


3 posted on 08/11/2007 8:58:40 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: indcons

Why do they have schools which are seperate schools here in the US. Isn’t this discrimination and why is it being allowed?


4 posted on 08/11/2007 9:00:47 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: indcons
...an Arabic-themed public school in New York...

Ya gotta love this kind of assimilation.

5 posted on 08/11/2007 9:02:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You know you are a great American when a Kennedy calls you a traitor.)
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To: metmom

“Islamic madrassa in New York” ping


6 posted on 08/11/2007 9:08:05 PM PDT by indcons
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To: indcons

This school will have classes in chemestry, (bomb making), religion, (wahabism), and all the other things good little muzzies need to learn at tax payers expense.


7 posted on 08/11/2007 9:08:10 PM PDT by skimask (The Democratic mantra.."Appeasement works. I'd rather live my life on my knees than die standing up)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well, they have a school for homosexuals, why not another school that would cater to other perversions..


8 posted on 08/11/2007 9:09:39 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: indcons

A member of a tiny religious minority chooses to celebrate the intifada in the most heavily Jewish city outside of Tel Aviv. Obviously, not very bright.


9 posted on 08/11/2007 9:09:56 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: indcons

just.... lovely.....

So when are they going to start funding Catholic and Christian schools?


10 posted on 08/11/2007 9:26:22 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Clemenza

Yet another glowering in-your-face heavily veiled Muslimah woman demanding total respect and submission toward Islam.

In a pig’s eye!

;^)


11 posted on 08/11/2007 9:26:47 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: indcons
embattled principal of an Arabic-themed public school in New York resigned Friday

This is puzzling.  Since when did an Islamofascist cave from political pressure?

12 posted on 08/11/2007 10:36:41 PM PDT by quantim (The U.S. 110th Congress is the first duly elected 'Politburo' of the new millennium.)
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To: indcons

Public monies paying for this B.S.
Those who promoted an pushed for it should be flogged.


14 posted on 08/12/2007 5:00:27 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher

I thought there was a separation between church and state. How can public money be spent on a religious school?


15 posted on 08/12/2007 6:41:23 AM PDT by SWEET OLD BILL
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To: SWEET OLD BILL
It is the Religion of Peace. Peace trumps everything. Peace, of course, meaning deliberate political murder...
16 posted on 08/12/2007 6:54:44 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: Joe Boucher

Bloomberg.


17 posted on 08/12/2007 7:09:56 AM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: SWEET OLD BILL

It’s ok as long as it is not a Christian school.
Hadn’t you heard?


18 posted on 08/12/2007 7:56:44 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Unicorn

NO way man, He’s going to run for president and become the savior of America.
He’s rich.

Well that is the only thing I can say about the guy, He’s rich.


19 posted on 08/12/2007 8:01:00 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: indcons
I would like ANY New York politician to explain to me how public funds can be used to finance and operate a madrassah?

Can you imagine the screech from the ACLU if public funds were used to finance and operate a Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Scientology school?

20 posted on 08/12/2007 8:09:22 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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