Opening a school like this one in NYC is like inviting a fox into the hen house, putting possible terrorists in the middle of where they can do the most damage.
Maybe then we can secede....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Any time I talk to people now, maybe I should say I'm from Rotterdam, Adirondack.
Adirondack - The 51st state of the United States of America. Adirondack became a state on (insert date) and includes much of what used to be New York State, including all counties north of Westchester County, NY.
The Aug. 28 letter by Elizabeth and Richard Weber, “Creating Arab school in NYC asking for trouble,” questioned the wisdom of the New York City Board of Education opening a public school that will feature an extensive study of Arabic language and culture. Arab culture, language and history are rich and diverse. Read the novels of Nawal El Saadawi, a phenomenal Egyptian feminist. Rent Arab films, listen to Arab music, tune into Al Jazeera (if you can), dine in a Lebanese restaurant. Make friends with Arabs and Arab-Americans, explore an Arab county. Visit the churches in Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem. Locate and old tourist guide of Iraq and read about the spectacular treasures that have been lost or destroyed as a result of the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation. Algebra was invented in Baghdad more than 1,000 years ago. Arab manufacture and widespread use of paper (invented in China) stimulated commerce and trade while allowing for huge numbers of people to become literate. Beginning a thousand years ago, European scholars began translating every Arab text on astronomy, medicine, geography, optics, chemistry, hydraulics, philosophy, history and mathematics they could get their hands on. Go to museums and examine Arab tapestries and ceramics. Admire Arab architecture with its graceful arches and tiles. Arabic, a language of poetry, became the predominant language of science from the ninth to the 15th centuries. Arab engineers built elaborate irrigation systems, water wheels, canals and cisterns to capture scarce water resources. We should have hundreds of Arab language and culture schools in the U.S. TOM ELLIS Albany
I do agree that Iraq is a country rich in culture and history. If the writer loves it so much maybe he should just move there and live with them and the religious fanatics.
I do agree that Iraq is a country rich in culture and history. If the writer loves it so much maybe he should just move there and live with them and the religious fanatics.
you're right there....I'm going to stay here, I'm used to our fanatics.....
You know, that's the one big thing. They're fanatics over religion, which they could come here and practice freely, whatever they wish. What do we call fanatics? The guys who buy the (imported) paint and go to the (overpriced) stadiums to get drunk (on some imported beer) and act like they need to be incarcerated due to mental illness.
A fanatic is anyone who has a passion for something we don't!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
This is regarding the Sept. 11 letter by Tom Ellis, “Arab culture rich and worth learning about,” concerning the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), a taxpayer-funded Arabic-themed school in New York City. Mr. Ellis not only praises this school, but states that hundreds of similar schools should be opened in the United States! There are some disturbing facts regarding the KGIA, such as its original principal, Dhabah Almontaser, quitting after public outrage over her acceptance of girls wearing T-shirts with the words “Intifadah NYC” on them. Textbooks, lesson plans and teaching materials will be adapted from publications supplied by the Council on Islamic Education, whose chief consultant’s husband is on the Saudi government payroll at an Islamic academy that has graduated terrorists. The Friends of Gibran Council, an organization that promotes the life and works of Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese-American Christian Maronite author and poet, has demanded that KGIA stop using the name of Khalil Gibran. And, finally, the KGIA has on its board of advisers three fundamentalist Islamic imams. Will this taxpayer-funded school be indoctrinating its students in anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish propaganda? With the concern for home-grown terrorism (expressed by the New York City Police Department and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies), taxpayers — as well as local and national law enforcement agencies — need to, at the very least, scrutinize and monitor what KGIA is teaching its students. TIMOTHY J. GAFFNEY SR. Rotterdam
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