Ironic Surrealism II

Stop The Madrassa: Protecting Our Public Schools from Islamist Curricula

About
STOP THE MADRASSA is a grass roots coalition of citizen groups and individuals concerned about the NYC Department of Education’s non-responsive posture regarding the creation of a new public school to teach Arabic history, culture and language: the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).

Why We Oppose the The Khalil Gibran International Academy

Why We Oppose the The Khalil Gibran International Academy

Who is Dhabah Almontaser: Almonstasser is a KGIA founder and the school Principal. She is on the board of the Muslim Consultative Network, whose members include unindicted co-conspirator CAIR, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA, associated with Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami), and the Majlis Ash Shura, the largest network of local imams and Shariah Law (extreme Islamist laws). ICNA also founded the Islamic Learning Foundation (ILF): “The main objective for ILF is enriching the lives of Muslims in general and Muslim Youth in particular by educating their minds and affecting their hearts with sound knowledge of Islamic Shariah.” Almontaser has been given an annual award by CAIR, a group associated with Hamas…..

Stop by a give them a word or two of support. Or if you can volunteer to help out in their efforts.

I have previously posted on this topic
Awareness Alert - Khalil Gibran Academy [updated July 21, 2007]

A snippet which contains a quote taken from a Daniel Pipes article.

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.”

START AN ISLAMIC SCHOOL

There has been a remarkable growth of private Islamic Schools in America during the past 15 years. In a study that was done in 1987 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) there were only about 50 verified schools in America. Now, in 2004, there are approximately 220. In just 2003 alone there were probably at least 6 new schools that opened. This is a trend that will continue so the League felt that it is important (and timely) to provide some resources that communities can refer to in the planning stages of opening a new school in your community.

If you are not familiar with some of the groups, I have taken the liberty to link to throughout quoted text. Be sure to click on the links, and become aware.

Dhabah Almontaser, principal designate of the proposed Khalil Gibran International Academy and more @ Pipeline News

In New York, the city that suffered the brunt of the September 11 attacks, it’s now the official party line that the obvious must be ignored.

Fact Dhabah Almontaser denies that Arabs and Muslims were involved in 9/11.

Fact Dhabah Almontaser has decried the use of Arab informants whose efforts have prevented terrorist attacks.

Fact a long list of people and organizations which are pushing KGIA harbor similar sentiments.

Fact a long list of people and organizations which are pushing KGIA harbor similar sentiments.

The forces which have coagulated around this issue are a Whitman’s Sampler of the type of players who are hastening the West’s ethical crisis:

1. Islamists of the ilk of Dhabah Almontaser and the AAFSC.

2. Checkbook multiculturalists who promote this philosophy using the money of others.

3. Leftist/progressives who have found common cause with the Islamists.

4. Members of the educational elite and the leaders of the teacher’s unions.

5. Mayor Bloomberg and similarly motivated politicians.

6. Post modernist, clerics and members of their congregations who no longer believe in anything outside of a vague sense moral relativism.

Militant Islamic Monitor has an article chock full of information, as always.

Debbie Does Da’wa: Khalil Gibran Jihad school principal Almontaser exploits 9/11 and anti Muslim bias claims to spread Islam
Dhabah Almonteser propagates Islam under the guise of “diversity consultant” and “multicultural educator”

As an added touch…

Western Education vs. Muslim Children

On the internet, a sister raised in a Muslim country was writing about the wonderful freedoms of living in the US. Some Muslims seem to take the influence of an Islamic atmosphere for granted ; adhan being called at each prayer time, modestly dressed people, halal food the norm, everyone greeting with salaams, lack of crime, availability of Qur’anic teachers and people treating one another as brothers and sisters in Islam, as being an influence in their upbringing. The importance of this environment on a young Muslims’s mind can not be replaced by the material advantages of living in a western country. The Western society teaches children by exposure that the norm of society is high crime, alcohol, fornication, high divorce rate, teenage pregnancies, deviant sexual practices, immodest clothing, putting individual desires over societal needs, lack of morals and charity, etc. According to Dr. Shahid Athar in “Sex Education: An Islamic Perspective”, children in America are exposed to 9,000 sexual scenes per year through the media and on television . Even now in public schools children are taught that homosexuality is an acceptable alternative form of family life.

But wait there is more…

In Prof. Yusuf Progler’s paper, he warns against Muslims participating in the Western educational system. He says that by using it, one adopts Western assumptions on the nature of existence. “Most Western practices of education have institutionalized (their) one version of what it means to be a human being…Muslims ought to re-evaluate their situation because the Western understanding of existence is quite different than the teachings of Islam. Islam has its own explanation…”

The west is deviant corrupt society, but yet they come to the West in droves. Why? I think we know…

Final thoughts. Even if Khalil Gibran, did not have these questionable ties and sympathies. I say they should NOT be publicly funded! Islam is religion based, (or so try to they lead us to believe) Their public stance. Privatize it or cancel the plans. Better yet just keep madrassa’s out of the U.S. There I said it, heh

Though that is the least of our worries, sadly enough.

(Highly) suggested reading.
Institutional Jihad: Saudi influence in U.S. @ Foehammer’s Anvil

Good Night and God Bless
- VH