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  • Groups Rally For & Against Planned Arabic-Themed Public School (Dem: The School's A "Dangerous Idea"

    08/21/2007 11:57:37 AM PDT · by Laissez-faire capitalist · 88 replies · 1,440+ views
    MyFox New York ^ | 8/20-21/2007 | MyFoxNY.com
    A planned Arabic-themed public school in Brooklyn has prompted polarized reactions. Critics warned Monday that students could be "indoctrinated" with radical Islamic beliefs and supporters called such statements "racist." The Khalil Gibran International Academy has generated controversy almost from the start... The schools first principal resigned after criticism over her affiliation with a group that sells tee-shirts with the word "intifada" on them. Debbie Almontaser called it quits after she failed to condemn the use of the highly charged word, an Arabic term for the Palestinian uprising against Israel... New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn)said the school's children could be...