Posted on 09/04/2007 9:33:25 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
As schools citywide open their doors today, a group critical of a new Arabic-language public school is stepping up its opposition efforts, broadening its campaign to target national school curricula.
The group, a coalition of community members, parents, and organizations called Citizens for American Values in Public Education, is seeking to stop the national use of textbooks that address Middle Eastern studies in ways the group says are too narrowly focused on Islamic culture. The coalition is an outgrowth of the group Stop the Madrassa, which has strongly opposed the creation of an Arabic-language school in Brooklyn, the Khalil Gibran International Academy.
"We want to offer textbooks and curricula that actually embrace a larger cultural picture," a spokeswoman for the group, Pamela Hall, said. "We would like to make sure that there are textbooks offered that are not propaganda, and not offered by just one source."
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An oxymoron if ever there was one.
This evening on Fox they were discussing this issue and they said that the Academy would not allow them to view the books... already suspicious. The Islamists are just pushing more and more to get their agenda in place. A little here, a little there. CAIR should be getting the lawsuit ready because you KNOW that is coming.
If the books taught creationism, they’d be on the 6 o’clock cable news talk shows.
What has me wondering is why the school was named after Kahlil Ghibran...He was christian.
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