A Jihad Grows in Brooklyn

This doesn't seem so bad....

A new public secondary school that is to include Middle Eastern studies in its curriculum will focus on culture, not the region's political conflicts, Department of Education officials said yesterday. "The school will not be a vehicle for political ideology," a Department of Education spokesman, David Cantor, said of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, due to open this September in Brooklyn.

As for the sorts of topics the school will cover, the CEO of the Office of New Schools, Garth Harries, gave as an example a math lesson plan that would mention that an Arabic mathematician invented the concept of zero. "It's going to follow Department of Education regulations," the director of the Arab-American Family Support Center, Lena Alhusseini, who helped design the school, said. "It's going to be exactly like all the schools in the city, the same curriculum."

Sarah Garland reports, in March, in the New York Sun, about Brooklyn's soon-to-be-established Khalil Gibran International Academy.

Beginning on March 7th, and continually updated since ( The last update was April 16th. ), Daniel Pipes has been busily exposing the real agenda, and who is behind it, with links, and analysis, in abundance:

My take on the school: In principle it is a great idea – the United States needs more Arabic-speakers. In practice, however, Arabic instruction is heavy with Islamist and Arabist overtones and demands....

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.)...

For all these reason, an Arabic-language school in New York needs to be held under special scrutiny.

But political correctness will make such scrutiny impossible. One can see the kernel of this denial in the statement by John Ali-Habib, vice chairman of Brooklyn's Republican Party and a member of the school's planning committee: "There's an Asian school opening in Flushing. It's the same thing." But it's precisely not the same thing.

Therefore, unless such controls are clearly put in place, I am opposed to the opening of this school.

Read the whole thing, and the comments:

On New York's "Khalil Gibran International Academy".

This is insane!

A taxpayer-funded Madrassah?

With 80% of American Mosques possibly infiltrated by Radical Islamists, to start allowing Public School Programs like this is a mistake of monumental proportions.

Isn't anyone paying attention?

Doesn't anyone read anymore?

This essay gives many examples of Islam encroaching on education in the U.S.

It also includes a truly scary look at how far this has progressed in England.

If you care about the threat to Western Civilization that is Radical Islam, I have a list of books to very strongly recommend that you read.

Other stories that cover this in detail, and expose the truth behind this very bad idea, and express outraged opinion:

NYC Scheduled To Open Arabic Language And Culture PUBLIC SCHOOL! - Political Dishonesty - Feb. 14th.

New York set to open Khalil Gibran 'Jihad' School - connected to Saudi funded ADC -principal won CAIR award - MilitantIslamMonitor.org - March 10th.

Khalil Gibran International aka Islamist Academy - Taxpayer funded NYC madrassah promotes Arab/ Muslim 9/11 victimhood hoax - MilitantIslamMonitor.org - April 2nd.

A Muslim Magnet School? -Commentary Magazine - March 25th.

Out of Many, One by Andrew Wolf in the NY Sun -March 16th.

Comments on the Wolf Commentary.

282Parents Blog Responds to Wolf Commentary - March 18th.

A Tip of the Hat to Barry Popik, of Room Eight NY Politics Blog, for spreading the word about this short list of stories!