Taxpayer funded Jihad training in New York City
From the New York Sun...
A new public secondary school that is to include Middle Eastern studies in its curriculum will focus on culture, not the region's political conflicts, Department of Education officials said yesterday.
"The school will not be a vehicle for political ideology," a Department of Education spokesman, David Cantor, said of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, due to open this September in Brooklyn.
From AM New York...
Debbie Almontaser expected the reaction. The longtime New York City educator, a Muslim of Yemeni background, will be leading the soon-to-open Khalil Gibran International Academy. She has done extensive interfaith and cultural work to fight stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims in the post-Sept. 11 world....
"It is a school that is going to be working quite hard in building bridges of understanding, tolerance and acceptance, valuing diversity and truly just developing students into global citizens," she said.
"Building bridges of understanding, tolerance and acceptance"?!? Excuse me a moment while I wipe coffee off my monitor...
How exactly is the intentional segregation of Moslem (let's drop the "Arabic" pretense) students building bridges and not walls?
From Militant Islam Monitor...
KGIA Principal Dhabah aka Debbie Almontaser is a long time practioner of da'wa [Islamic propagation] in the guise of "multicultural educator" and not surprisingly received a CAIR award for community service together with Ghazi Khankan former director of CAIR NYC who is on record as shouting"I bring you salaams and greetings from the Mujahideen at CAIR" at one of the group's rallies.
Yemen born Almontaser wears a hijab and has spent years doing da'wa in the public schools after 9/11 when the NYC Board of Education decided that the best way to deal with the attacks was to present her with the job of "multicultural educator" and send her into public school classrooms to tell students about "Islam and Arab culture". As with everyone involved with the KGIA she hyped a non existent backlash and hysteria, with the operative word being discrimination and fear on the part of Muslims to exploit 9/11 for da'wa purposes [i.e. non Muslims must learn about Islam to understand us].
From Daniel Pipe...
In principle it is a great idea – the United States needs more Arabic-speakers. In practice, however, Arabic instruction is heavy with Islamist and Arabist overtones and demands. For one powerful first-hand example of this problem at the collegiate level, see "Middlebury's Arabic Morass" by Franck Salameh. For the heavy ideological freight that Arabic instruction carries, see "Does Learning Arabic Prevent Moral Decay?" where one learns that some Muslims believe "Knowledge of Arabic can then help the Western countries recover from the present moral decay." (This is not as surprising as it sounds, for Muslims commonly assume that a non-Muslim who learns Arabic is en route to conversion to Islam; I experienced this many times during my Cairo years.)
If it's not going to focus on pro-Islamic indoctrination, then why are those in charge well known for pro-Islamic indoctrination?
Posted by Danny Carlton at April 16, 2007 5:32 AM