Chancellor of New York City Schools John Klein who is in favor of a school for Muslims
Posted on 08/28/2007 1:41:17 PM PDT by NYer
.- The New York City Department of Education approved a proposal to open a publicly funded Muslim school. The decision, however, is not going by unchallenged.
The Thomas More Law Center announced yesterday that it will represent a group of citizens opposed to the Sept. 4 opening of Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).
The Law Center will act as co-counsel with attorney David Yerushalmi, who filed a Freedom of Information Act request on July 23, asking for more details about KGIA. Yerushalmi’s requests have gone unanswered to date.
The Law Center claims the school is nothing more than a thinly disguised incubator for Islamist radicalization. Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center, said an NYPD Intelligence Report warned Americans of the same thing about two weeks ago.
The school will immerse its students in Islamic culture and has three fundamentalist Islamist imams on its Board of Advisors, as well as other promoters with connections to militant Islamic organizations, the Law Center pointed out.
“Rather than use the public school system to assimilate Muslims and other immigrants into American culture, New York City is doing everything it can to keep them isolated – a target rich environment for recruiting potential new homegrown terrorists and a recipe for a future 911 disaster, according to my read of the NYPD Report,” cautioned Thompson.
The Law Center also noted that New York City School Chancellor, Joel Klein, who is aggressively promoting this Islamic school, also refused to allow two Christian students to display a Nativity Christmas. This is “another example of how political correctness is leading to a malicious double standard when it comes to religious expression in public schools,” said Thompson.
The Law Center argues that several factors, including an executive summary of the KGIA proposal, point to the school as anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish.
Some of the school’s promoters have ties to questionable Islamic organizations, including the Council of American Islamic Relations. The group’s founder and chairman publicly stated in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Quaran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Imam Talib Abdul-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood is on the school’s advisory board. The Muslim Brotherhood website contains the ominous slogan: "The Qu’ran is our constitution/Jihad is our way/And death in the way of Allah is our promised end."
Klein has attempted to assuage citizen fears that KGIA is a madrassa [Islamic religious school] by promising to monitor the school for any religious violations. However, once the school is operational, any attempt to monitor for religious expressions, may be challenged as a constitutional violation as such monitoring for religious material is arguably an excessive entanglement with religion.
Don’t worry. I’m sure the ACLU will go after them shortly... /s
So does Bin Laden.
Not that I have a vote in the matter, but I’ll go for it as soon as they put in a nice Catholic school.
I can see it now, Jihad High.
IMMERSION IN ISLAMIC CULTURE!!!!??? How will they ever get along with the MEXICANS?
“New York City School Chancellor, Joel Klein...”
Apparently another liberal Jew with a death wish.
Oh really. Chancellor give us one good reason why we should aid the enemy?
F***** IDIOTS!
Why does no one ever ask the question, “Why wasn’t this necessary before 9/11”?
This is absolutely disgusting.
Even apart from the issue of terrorism (which is granting a lot), how come we can have an Islamic school but not a Christian school or a Jewish school that is publicly funded?
This is so far out it’s incredible. Where are the ACLU and the People for the American Way?
If they have Christian and Jewish and Hindu, etc, public schools, then they can have Islamic ones.
Somehow I don’t think they do though...
I think the author of this piece is either misinformed or is trying to misinform others. It is an Arabic themed school, not an Islamic school. It focuses on Arabic language and culture, not Islamic culture. As everyone knows, not all Arabs are Muslems.
Having said that, I think this needs to be watched closely. I have no problem with an Arabic themed secular school. It must have secular administrators and teachers and must not delve into religious practice.
It would be a good thing for more American young people to learn Arabic. The military and the CIA will need them in the future.
Boy I HATE STUPID PEOPLE.
We should build one, right after we build enough Christian and Jewish schools in New York to match the proportion those believers represent of the population.
My guess is that this Muslim appeaser isn’t interested in doing anything as radical as that.
Interesting, considering Gibran was a Lebanese Christian.
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