Posted on 08/14/2007 6:43:49 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
The story of the public school in Brooklyn that is poised to become a taxpayer-underwritten, Islamist recruitment and indoctrination center took a dramatic turn last week. The principal-designate of the so-called Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser, was forced to resign after she defended a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Intifada NYC" — making clear her radical ideology and proclivity for dissembling.
The question is no longer whether Ms. Almontaser was... determined to use the KGIA to advance her theo-political agenda. Her claim ... was so preposterous — not to say alarming — that her supporters, notably Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Public Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, found it impossible to ignore the outcry...
Unfortunately, at this writing, it appears that the rest of Dhabah Almontaser's plan for the Khalil Gibran International Academy remains intact. If the school opens as scheduled in September, it will, as a practical matter, have to operate on the basis of her curriculum, with the teachers she has hired and utilizing her selections of Arabic-language textbooks...
The inadvisability of allowing the Almontaser influence to persist after her departure is made clear in an executive summary of her program..."[It] 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..
If that were not enough, the AAFSC's director, Lena Al Husseini, also continues to serve on the KGIA planning committee. Ms. Al Husseini and her organization are closely tied to other Islamist groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the Muslim Students Association (MSA). CAIR and ISNA were recently designated as unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism-financing case...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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I’m sure the ACLU will be all over this, to make sure tax-payers don’t have to pay for an Islamic based public school. They will steadfastly uphold the separation of church and state. /sarc
If this/these schools are taxpayer funded, then why hasn’t someone taken them to court screaming about separation of church and state. They would certainly be no hesitation if it were Chritians doing this sort of thing.
I hope there’s a bench outside that school. I’ll take a day off work to eat a big ham sandwich outside.
Nobody’s going to ruin my old neighborhood while I’m still alive.
This school should never be allowed to open.
I can help that happen.
her supporters, notably Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Public Schools Chancellor Joel KleinLet's keep this in mind if Osama Bin Bloomberg decides to run for President.
The first one is on me. I will paypal you some money for the ham. :)
I know a good place to get said sandwich. Ah Gravesend, how I miss thee.
I love it that “paypal” is now a verb. Like google.
just the spot for a MOAB
Glad you’re keeping up on this. Hikind should NOT have cancelled the planned protest. Page 8 of the Executive Summary mentions teacher workshops in islam...haven’t heard any protests about this one.
“Should taxpayers be asked to underwrite the exposure of public school students to a pedagogy rooted in this sort of separatism, victimization and grievance?”
Sounds like standard multiculturalism mixed with liberalism to me.
This question should have been asked a long time ago!
Wonder how many public sponsored Christian & Jewish schools there are in NYC?
And to all who want religion taught in public schools: you asked for it, & now you will get it! Do you feel better now, or just stupid?
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