[Phsstpok]

This doesn’t make sense. Gibran was raised a Maronite Christian. His best known work, The Prophet, is a thinly veiled (and very positive) story about Abdul Baha, the founder of the Baha’i faith (an offshoot of Islam, it is considered heretical as it doesn’t accept that Mohammed was the final prophet). The Tenanbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, a primarily Jewish organization, is heavily involved in this school.

Yes it’s multicultural. Yes it emphasizes Arab history, language and culture, but notably not Islam. Most of Gibran’s writings were about things other than Islam in the Arab world. In fact he is thought by most to be anti-religion based on personal experience with corrupt Eastern Orthodox Christian and Ottoman Empire Islamic officials.

[johnqueuepublic]

Gibran has nothing to do with the school, did you take the time to even read this article?

[johnqueuepublic]

The principal of the school Dhabah Almontaser is a Yemeni muslima, who wears hijab and who denies that the 9/11 hijackers were either Arab or Muslim.

Perhaps I mis read or mis interpreted your post, in which case I apologize.

[Joe 6-pack]

It seems to me from all I've read, that Gibran's name is being used as the sheep skin...

[durasell]

NYC has a gay high school named as a San Francisco guy.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently the major league baseball player Khalil Greene (San Diego Padres) is an adherent of the Baha’i faith...if he was born into it that may explain his first name.