From FOXNews.com comes an update on a story that should be very familiar to Anvil regulars (hat-tip: Always on Watch):
On Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg accepted the resignation of Debbie Almontaser, principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, an English-Arabic school set to open next month in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“I became convinced yesterday that this week’s headlines were endangering the viability of Khalil Gibran International Academy, even though I apologized,” Almontaser said in an e-mail to FOX News.
The principal had come under fire for comments she made to The New York Post about an “Intifada NYC” T-shirt that is sold by an activist group which shares an office with the Yemeni-American association that Almontaser represents.
The day before she condemned the T-shirt message’s connection to Palestinian terrorism, Almontaser told the Post that “intifada” meant “shaking off” and the shirts represented women “shaking off” oppression.
A small victory for our side for a change. You may read the rest of the article here.
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This is such heartening news. I’d been feeling so down lately. But now I have some encouragement to keep up my work.
PS: Thanks, FH, for the hat-tip.
“I became convinced yesterday that this week’s headlines were endangering the viability of Khalil Gibran International Academy”
I would say an attempt at “educational jihad” bit back.
>>”Almontaser told the Post that “intifada” meant “shaking off” and the shirts represented women “shaking off” oppression.”
Enjoyed you site!
Intifada means shaking off? That’s a hot one. I have a couple of other words I could put in front of “off” that would be more accurate but this is a clean site
A educated Muslim female pushing intifada in NYC, which just happens to be the home of almost as many Jews as the nation of Israel itself. Yikes, the myth of moderate Islam is taking on water and sinking rather quite fast.
Never give up, Always On Watch. You make a difference and there’s no way a 7th century mindset will be able to take over the United States. Ever. And if it should take over other nations belonging to Western Civilization that imbalance will be corrected.
Never give up. We’re making progress every day.
So the now-former Islamic principal is stupid as well as a liar. What a big surprise. I wonder how she was chosen and who did the ‘vetting’ of this loser?
Kick her to the curb!