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SCHOOL NAME: Khalil Gibran International Academy
DESCRIPTION:
The Khalil Gibran International Academy’s mission is to prepare students of diverse
backgrounds for success in an increasingly global and interdependent society. Our focus is on holistic student development and rigorous academics. Through our multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction, students graduate with the skills they need to become empowered independent thinkers who are able to work with cultures beyond their own.
Students graduate with a deep understanding of different cultural perspectives, a love of
learning, and a desire for excellence, with integrity preparing them for leadership in today’s constantly changing global world.
Cross Posted from an article submitted to Campus Watch, by Pamela Geller Oshry of Atlas Shrugs
by Pamela Geller Oshry
Atlas Shrugs Blog
June 21, 2007
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/06/ny-submits-to-p.html
The letter from Joel Klein Chancellor, NY Department of Education - open this file to read the whole disgusting submission to Islam. (click below the fold for pges 2&3)
Download Hale_Community_Letter_061907.pdf
An Atlas operative attended the MS447 PTA meeting which was held to update parents on the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the NY Arabic public school madrassa situation. Half the classes at the school will be taught in Arabic. Arabic is more than a language. It is explicated the language of Islam so in that sense it is part of the Islamic religious imperial project. Radical Islam advances through the Arabic language.
About 25 parents showed up. No media.
Garth Harries, Jerry Taylor-Brown (a woman in his office), Bill DeBlasio, and Sam Colen (not sure of last name or who he is) attended from the Department of Education.
Tom Dolan (P.T.A. President) summarized the agreement.
The parent’s concerns last night were:
1. Would all students have lockers as promised?
2. Dance Studio
3. Overcrowding in cafeteria, and because there are so many students, some are eating late and are hungry.
4.Last year there was a fire in the building. High School students exited first, leaving Middle School students waiting in the building. How would they manage in the future with more students?
5. Would the D.O.E. keep promises since they haven’t in the past. Would they put everything in writing?
6. Concern about sharing Science Labs with KGIA.
7. What will be KGIA start and end time?
Atlas operative (AO) waited for a parent to bring up serious concerns. This almost did not happen. Finally a concerned woman raised her hand and said;
“…..everyone remembers when Dhabah Almontasser read an e-mail from an Iraqi GI praising her and how wonderful this Arabic School is.” (everyone nodded yes and smiled).
She had read an article that explained how this GI was found to be a fraud. He wasn’t on his base in Colorado as he said. He was in the Bronx. He immediately disconnected his phone. This really surprised me. It scared me actually. After all, why would Dhabah Almontasser do this? What else could they be doing? She did some research and googled her.
Did you know she [Almontasser] recently received an award from the Council on American Islamic Relations and they are an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Hamas terrorism case?”
Garth Harries became apoplectic. His eyes narrowed and he stared so hard at that woman so hard you could feel his anger.
She continued that just read about a school in San Diego that tried this same experiment with an Arabic Cultural School and now they have Sharia law. Boys and girls are separated, there is Muslim prayer during classes, and Halal food in the cafeteria.
Her concern was that they kept saying that there will be accountability and the school will be monitored, but who in the D.O.E. speaks Arabic and how will they have someone sitting in the classrooms to hear what they are teaching? She could not see how that’s possible. And also, she asked “where are the textbooks? Don’t you all think we should see them?”
She wanted too get copies of all the textbooks used. Smart woman.
She thanked the P.T.A. for all of their hard work.
She thanked them for begging for new equipment and improvements and asked if anyone knew that after two years KGIA is “moving into brand new state-of the-art building while they were left in here.”
Harries glossed over every point she brought up and never answered a question or concern.
Someone raised their hand (Harries knew she was on his side) and said, “We definitely need police security because there are people who don’t like Arabs”.
Another questioned was asked about lockers and Harries ended the meeting.
A gentleman then asked to make a comment. He said that the whole affair was handled poorly and that he was distressed at Mayor Bloomberg’s comment in the New York Times early on in the discussions. He didn’t appreciate Bloomberg saying that he did not care what the parents wanted and the school would open. He hoped that in the future the parents would be consulted.
I caught an exchange between the female questioner and Harries. He accused her of being confrontational. He was beyond furious that someone would go along with the plan. The parents looked like lambs being led to the slaughter; happy, until right before they realize what’s up.
Another woman asked if the D.O.E. would allow her a variance at this late date so she can place her son in another school.
The problem with that is, they will probably offer schools she doesn’t want in order to discourage students from leaving.
Another parent was concerned that the school would lose funding because of an enrollment drop. Harries promised they would not do this. Schools are given a certain amount of dollars per student. It is highly irregular to fund students who don’t exist.
Harries said enrollment for KGIA is at 100 students and they had to stop taking applications. I don’t believe this.
There are so many dangers involved. One crucial issue is the indoctrination.
The other issue is that Dhabah Almontasser and associates will be privy to everything that occurs in the Department of Education, especially concerning School Safety. If they know the procedures they have inside knowledge they can use to infiltrate the system. This is a huge issue. Thousands of students could be placed at risk.
The third issue is they will be given enormous amounts of dollars to fund their agenda, which is indoctrination, not education.
There are illegal immigrant students in the educational system already.
I know of an incident in Edward R. Murrow where I.C.E was called in. KGIA will not report an illegal immigrant. They will harbor them. T because the paperwork and documents didn’t match. KGIA will get these kids proper documentation.
This is a very scary situation. Every local politician I’ve spoken to refuses to go near this. Some of them fawn over Almontasser.
More importantly – this sets a dangerous precedent. Our taxpayer dollars being used to build these houses of hate.
Related article regarding education in America. Wahhabism in education that is.
Before we get to the article, let’s learn what Wahhabisim is all about.
For more than two centuries, Wahhabism has been Saudi Arabia’s dominant faith. It is an austere form of Islam that insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran. Strict Wahhabis believe that all those who don’t practice their form of Islam are heathens and enemies. Critics say that Wahhabism’s rigidity has led it to misinterpret and distort Islam, pointing to extremists such as Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Wahhabism’s explosive growth began in the 1970s when Saudi charities started funding Wahhabi schools (madrassas) and mosques from Islamabad to Culver City, California. Here are excerpts from FRONTLINE’s interviews with Mai Yamani, an anthropologist who studies Saudi society; Vali Nasr, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism; Maher Hathout, spokesperson for the Islamic Center of Southern California; and Ahmed Ali, a Shi’a Muslim from Saudi Arabia. (Also see the Links and Readings section of this site for more analyses of Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia.) Continued
Now for an eye opening article on Saudi funding of “Middle Eastern Studies Centers” on campuses throughout America.
by Sandhya Jain
Pioneer
May 4, 2004
As Iraq gets murkier and Uncle Sam loses credibility in the war on terror, American analysts are waking up to the extent to which Saudi funds have penetrated the nation’s soft underbelly. According to Lee Kaplan, Saudis have pumped massive funds into leading educational institutions as part of a concerted plan to turn American academia against Israel and in favour of their vision of a global Muslim state in which Jews, Christians and other infidels will have subordinate status to the followers of Islam (FrontPageMagazine 5 April 2004).
Wahhabism is rabidly anti-West and scorns religious tolerance and human rights. Western attempts to promote democratic reforms in the House of Saud are seen as an insult to Islam; hence Saudi royals have waged a genteel jihad through ideas (i.e., paid the intellectual pipers of the West), even while financing Al Qaeda and Palestinian radicals. The US Senate Judiciary Committee recently found that the Saudi kingdom controlled most Muslim bodies in the country, paying 80% of the mortgages on mosques.
In just three decades, the Saudi royal family has donated over US $70 billion to indoctrinate worldwide institutions against the West and Israel. American academics naturally deny the funds have strings attached, yet it seems reasonable to ask, as Kaplan does, why a theocratic regime with 30% to 50% of its population illiterate, would take more interest in the US educational system than in its own.
Saudi gifts to American institutions are mind-boggling. King Fahd donated US $20 million to establish the Middle East Studies Center at the University of Arkansas. Two Saudi financiers of Al Qaeda gave US $5 million to UC Berkeley’s Center For Middle East Studies. Then, Harvard got US $2.5 million; Georgetown US $8.1 million, including a $500,000 scholarship in the name of President Bush; Cornell US $11 million; MIT US $5 million; Texas A&M US $1.5 million and Princeton US $1 million. Rutgers received US $5 million to endow a chair, as did Columbia. Several other universities also received Saudi largesse.
It is not difficult to see how this translates into mind control. American conservatives point out that by funding Middle East Studies Centers and endowed chairs on campuses across the country, the Saudis were able to determine the curriculum taught to American students about the situation in the Middle East. This curriculum is anti-West, anti-Christian, anti-Jew, and moulds students to hate Israel and to hate America as an “imperialist” or “racist” nation.
Historian Martin Kramer laments that Columbia University has become “Bir Zeit on-the-Hudson.” Bir Zeit university was created by Israel for Palestinians in the West Bank, but rather than serving their educational needs, turned into a breeding ground for terrorist ideologues, with faculty writing against the US and Israel. At Columbia, Palestinians dominate modern Middle East teaching and discourage diversity of opinion.
A chair endowed by Saudi money is filled by academics renowned for their Palestinian or Saudi activism rather than their scholarship. Columbia’s new “Edward Said Chair Of Arab Studies” went to Rashid Khalidi, a University of Chicago historian and Palestinian activist. Said was an English literature professor with specialization on Jane Austen, but his anti-American and anti-Israel views dominated Middle East studies across America. Columbia’s Middle East department has another anti-US, anti-Israel Palestinian professor, Joseph Massad. Between Khalidi and Massad, students will be exposed to a one-dimensional view of the Gulf.
The situation has become so lop-sided that Lisa Anderson, head of International Studies at Columbia, publicly admitted that Middle East Studies at Columbia and other campuses are not balanced. Far more serious is the fact that Columbia tried to conceal the source of funds for the Edward Said Chair until pressure from outside academics and the legal requirements of the State of New York compelled disclosure.
Saudi endowed chairs and departments have produced college faculty who mouth the very propaganda provided to children in Saudi Arabian schools. For instance, Connecticut State University’s Norton Mezvinsky says Judaism is a religion of “racism” whose adherents believe the “blood of non-Jews has no intrinsic value” and that the killing of non-Jews does “not constitute murder according to the Jewish religion.” Joel Beinin, Middle East Studies Professor at Stanford, rants against America’s “Zionist lobby” that uses power “to make and unmake regimes.”
Joel Beinin is also the sole guest lecturer to the University of Arkansas’ Middle East Studies department, funded by King Fahd. It offers an Arabic language course. A sample newsletter published by the department has a full-page poem translated by some students, called “A Letter To A Faraway Friend” (from inside the occupied territory). It subtly demeans Israel and praises martyrdom and death. The rot has spread to virtually every campus. Harvard received US $2 million. At its graduation ceremony, student Zayed Yasin spoke eloquently on “My American Jihad,” supported Hamas, and said suicide bombers should be paid. He also raised funds for the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity shut down by the Bush administration as an Al-Qaeda front.
What has particularly upset conservatives is that while these departments are created by Saudi money, they also receive matching State funds through a Cold War provision known as Title VI. After 11 September 2002, Title VI funded an additional 118 Middle East Resource Centers at US colleges and universities to teach Arabic and promote security analysis. But rather than serving the needs of the military and intelligence services, most departments permitted students the luxury of low standards of Arabic and focused on research articles serving the cause of jihad.
Title VI money not only pays the salaries of academics advancing Saudi interests, but also supports activists whose reach extends beyond the campuses. The combined funding for Middle East centers provides stipends, scholarships and fellowships to Gulf students, thus supporting their work as activists. Some students have trained in activism overseas during the summer, and returned to US campuses to deploy their skills, creating an anti-American and anti-Israeli atmosphere. This has resulted in an increase in anti-Semitic attacks on college campuses. Some time ago, Jewish students at San Francisco State had to be escorted to safety by city police during a pro-Israel rally. At Concordia University, 1500 “students” showed up to create a riot and prevent former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking on terrorism; ticket holders needed police escort off campus as well.
For the heavy Islamic 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.) Evidence from Algeria also points to the impact of Arabic instruction, as documented in James Coffman’s breakthrough 1995 article “Does the Arabic Language Encourage Radical Islam?” He compared Algerian students taught in French versus those taught in Arabic and found that
Arabized students show decidedly greater support for the Islamist movement and greater mistrust of the West. Arabized students tend to repeat the same simplistic stories and rumors that abound in the Arabic-language press, particularly Al-Munqidh, the newspaper of the Islamic Salvation Front. They tell about sightings of the word “Allah” written in the afternoon sky, the infiltration into Algeria of Israeli women spies infected with AIDS, the “disproving” of Christianity on a local religious program, and the mass conversion to Islam by millions of Americans. I was not the only one to notice this distinction. When asked if the new, Arabized students differed from the other students, many students and faculty answered an emphatic yes.
A detailed full report via a back story on the “The Khalil Gibran International Academy” at Militant Islam Monitor “Six years after the attacks and still no memorial at Ground Zero, instead 2007 will see the opening of the taxpayer funded Brooklyn based madrassah aka “The Khalil Gibran International Academy for Arabic and Islamic Culture.”
Post 9/11. Frightening is it not? All I have to say is …WHY IS THIS ALLOWED??
Did we allow nazi bootcamps in America, during WW2?
More to the point, did we allow nazi bootcamps on our American College campuses or public schools during WW2?
No.
Hamas Sympathizers Tied To Khalil Gibran International Academy? @ Pipeline News
By Beila Rabinowitz and William Mayer
July 17, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In previous articles the writers have documented why Dhabah aka “Debbie” Almontaser, the Yemeni born principal designate of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, does not belong in the public school system.
She promotes an Islamist agenda, operates in an environment populated by radical Muslim organizations and individuals, holds extreme leftist political views and aims to use the KGIA as a tool of indoctrination. [see Khalil Gibran Jihad School - Indoctrination Not Education]
This relationship poses a serious challenge to those who blindly maintain that KGIA is just another New York City charter school, because Linda Sarsour is tied to the terrorist organization Hamas as well as other radical causes. Deepening the concern, the community from which Sarsour operates shares her views as well as her support for Islamism.
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Comment posted by Parrot
at 6/25/2007 10:21:28 AM
This is the scariest thing I have read in a while. People need to realize that Islam is pervasive in all elements of the culture; the language points to all other elements of the culture, including literature and political ideologies.
Readers, please understand; Islam is an international political movement intent spreading its influence the world over. If you do not know much about Islam, READ UP ON IT. Make sure at very least you understand the concepts of SHARIA, WAHHABISM, DAR’AL HARB, DAR’AL ISLAM, D’AWA, HONOR KILLINGS, and JIHAD. Remember, don’t just read the definitions, understand the concepts as they apply to Muslims. I have lived in Islamic countries now for two years now, and I wish I could un-learn what I know, and live in blissful ignorance over the impending wave of Jihad (both violent and socio-political) that’s being planned right now. The next best thing is to help arm my American brothers and sisters with the understanding and knowledge of what’s happening right now - and what’s coming.
The growth and worldwide sprawl of Islam is not an accident, much of it’s funded by the wealthy Saudis. At very least they are a threat to the American cultural identity, and at worst they will use terror and intimidation against us until WE become just like THEM, and the liberals have rolled out the red carpet for them. Think I’m exaggerating? Read up on it and see, or just wait 10 more years and see for yourself.
My new blog on the topic is under construction. I haven’t chosen a name yet, but it will in some way incorporate “parrot.” I hope to see you all there. OK, off my soap box now. How’s it going Velvet? I believe we’ve run into each other on a couple of other blogs? Take care and keep up the great work! Love your site.
Comment posted by velvethammer
at 6/25/2007 10:50:51 AM
Parrot
Thank you! A top notch comment!
Let me know when you have your blog up and running. Perhaps we could exchange links.
Yes I know who you are. 
Tickled pink that you have stopped by.
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