Posted on 08/13/2007 3:53:54 AM PDT by Man50D
Foes of a new publicly funded Arabic-themed school in New York worry it will draw students from a radical mosque tied to terrorism and become an incubator for young jihadists.
The Khalil Gibran International Academy, scheduled to open next month in Brooklyn, is located three blocks from the Masjid al-Farooq mosque frequented by one of the terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The Boerum Hill mosque counts among past imams:
Blind Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, who is serving a federal prison sentence for conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks.
Fawaz Abu Damra, who has preached that Muslims should be "directing all rifles at the first and last enemy of the Islamic nation, and this is the sons of monkeys and pigs the Jews."
Gulshair El-Shukrijumah, one-time interpreter for the Blind Sheik and the late father of Adnan el-Shukrijumah, a suspected al-Qaida operative wanted by the FBI as possibly training to be the "next Mohamed Atta."
Federal investigators recently traced money raised for al-Qaida back to the al-Farooq mosque, which did not return phone calls seeking comment.
"It is still frequented by Islamists," said Sara Springer, an eighth-grade teacher at a public middle school in Brooklyn.
"I am very concerned that the school will be a madrassa, funded by taxpayer dollars," she said. "We will in effect be supporting the training of future terrorist cells."
Officials say the new school, known as KGIA, will educate students about Islamic culture and Arabic, but will not promote Islam. Local detractors are not swayed, however.
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No, but the taxpayers of NYC will simply be made to build another madrassah. You'd think that after 9/11, people would learn not to build places like that.
Buy a clue, we've been supporting them and ignoring the ramifications for quite some time. In many other countries, these places would become rubble and their members would mysteriously never be heard from again.
Right under our noses, indoctrination centers for the death cult are being built, and financed with our money.
Can you imagine the hue and cry that would arise if any Christian church tried to pull off a stunt like this? The mosque is planning on having “volunteers” in the school, to guide the children.
If people want religious education for their children, they should pay for it themselves. I know I do. The New York City Department of Education has no business running a Madrassa.
Where is the ACLU on this? [/sarc]
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