Stop the Madrassa By Frank J Gaffney Jr.

The story of the public school in Brooklyn that is poised to become a taxpayer-underwritten, Islamist recruitment and indoctrination center took a dramatic turn last week. The principal-designate of the so-called Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), Dhabah “Debbie” Almontaser, was forced to resign after she defended a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Intifada NYC” – making clear her radical ideology and proclivity for dissembling.

The question is no longer whether Ms. Almontaser was, as her critics in a group of parents, teachers and concerned citizens called the Stop the Madrassa Community Coalition have insisted, determined to use the KGIA to advance her theo-political agenda. Her claim that “intifada” actually meant nothing more than a “shaking off” and that its use in connection with New York City was unobjectionable was so preposterous – not to say alarming – that her supporters, notably Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Public Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, found it impossible to ignore the outcry.

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