I don’t know what the story is behind naming the school after him.
I have his beautiful book The Prophet.
Here is the wiki entry on him...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran
I thought the whole principal/”infitada” controversy was pretty amusing considering the guy was not a muslim.
Do you think it’s ok to publicly fund an Arabic school? Will there be only Christian Arabs attending or will it be mostly Moslems who don’t want to assimilate? Gibran was a Christian? Are you sure? The name is a decoy, a trick. Naming the school after Khaddafi would have been too blatant. I really don’t think the protesting is over the name of the school, but that it is publicly funded.