Islamist Ex-Principal Sues NY PUblic School Madrassa

She’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

One thing you have to give the Islamists, they never give up. Ever. You’ve gotta hand it to them.No matter how stunning the loss the pick themselves up and with sharia as their inspiration fight for jihad. They learned Churchill’s lesson weel, never give up, never give in. And they don’t. They just keep on coming. Going after that brass ring, the jewel of jewels – America.

Miss Intifada NYC is suing to get reinstated as principal of the NY public school madrassa, the Khalil Gibran International Academy. They really think we are weak knee-ed schmucks, don’t they?

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Principal Almontaser to Sue City Wants Her Job Back YidwithLid

The lady with the intifada Shirts is back. Dhaba Almontaser the first principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn is suing the Board of Education to get her job back. If you remember Ms Almontaser got in trouble for selling Intifada NYC shirts to her school kids, and when confronted with that fact by the NY Post she answered that there is nothing wrong with the word Intifada. Eventually she reigned for the good of the school —but now she wants back.

Almontaser To Sue City Over Arab School Flap

BY ELIZABETH GREEN – Staff Reporter of the Sun

October 16, 2007

The founding principal of the city’s Arabic-language school is fighting to get her job back.

Dhaba Almontaser said today she would file a lawsuit against the Department of Education, and possibly Mayor Bloomberg, accusing them of violating her First Amendment rights by forcing her out of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn.

"There are resignations and then there are resignations," a lawyer for Ms. Almontaser, Alan Levine, said. "This was a resignation that was in effect a termination."

Get your teeth out of our neck.

He added: "She was in effect terminated because her public views were not acceptable to the Department of Education and to the mayor."

Principal of Arabic School Says She Was Forced Out

Debbie Almontaser said city officials told her they would close
the new Arabic-themed school if she did not resign as its principal.

Every speaker spoke of the opposition (us) as neo-cons,
right-wingers, racists, hate-mongers, Islamophobes.  They are playing it for all
it’s worth.  They pushed the envelope.

Almontaser spoke. She said the Stop the Madrassa coalition harassed and stalked her. One of the members of the coaltion who was there  couldn’t believe she said that. They always play that card. Notice? ISLAMOPHOBIC! RACIST!
The New York Times, the official paper of the American Jihad, ran her complete remarks;

Good evening. My name is Debbie Almontaser. I am the founding principal of
the Khalil Gibran International Academy, which is known as KGIA. Over a two-year
period beginning in 2005, I devoted my life to establishing a school that
reflected not only my vision, but the ideas of a design team that included other
educators, prospective parents, community members, and the Arab American Family
Support Center.

Hey teacher, how about you devote your life to establishing a school that reflects America. American greatness. American values. How bout that?

In early August of this year, under pressure from The New York Post, The New
York Sun, and right-wing bloggers, representatives of the mayor, the chancellor,
and New Visions demanded that
I resign as KGIA’s principal. They threatened to close down KGIA if I refused.
The next day, I submitted my letter of resignation. Because I believe that I am
the person to carry forward the mission of KGIA, I have today submitted my
application to become the principal of KGIA. I have also asked my lawyer to
begin preparing a lawsuit against the D.O.E. for violation of my constitutional
rights.

When I first discussed with New
Visions for Public Schools the creation of an Arabic dual-language public
school in New York City, controversy was far from my mind. I was thrilled to
create a unique school that would provide a rigorous regents-based curriculum
with Arabic language and cultural studies, and that would equip students for
work in such areas as international affairs diplomacy and cross-cultural
understanding. As with the more than 60 other dual language programs in the
city, KGIA was created to foster multilingual and multicultural education. It
was also joining many New York City public schools that use theme-based
approaches to inform and enrich curriculum across subject areas. As an
Arab-American Muslim, born in Yemen and raised in the U.S., establishing KGIA
was my American dream. It turned into an American nightmare.

On Feb. 12, 2007, the Department of Education announced the establishment of
KGIA. In the days following, right-wing blogs began spinning KGIA as an Islamist
school with a radical extremist jihad principal. And local New York City papers
fanned the flames with headlines like: “Holy war! Slope Parents Protest Arabic
School Plan,” “A Madrassa Grows in Brooklyn,” and “Arabic School Idea Is a
Monstrosity.” From the day the school was approved to the day I was forced to
resign, The New York Sun plastered my picture on its website with a link to
negative articles about KGIA.

Leading the attack was the “Stop the Madrassa Coalition”
run by Daniel Pipes, who has made his
career fostering hatred of Arabs and Muslims. The coalition conducted a smear
campaign against me and the school that was ferocious. Members of the coalition
stalked me wherever I went and verbally assaulted me with vicious anti-Arab and
anti-Muslim comments. They suggested that, as an observant Muslim, I was
disqualified from leading KGIA, even though the school is rigorously secular,
and its namesake, Khalil Gibran, was a Lebanese Christian. To stir up anti-Arab
prejudice, they constantly referred to me by my Arabic name, a name that I do
not use professionally. They even created and circulated a YouTube clip
depicting me as a radical Islamist.

Then in early August, The New York Post and the Stop the Madrassa Coalition
tried to connect me to T-shirts made by a youth organization called Arab Women
in the Arts and Media. The T-shirts said, “Intifada NYC.” Post reporters
aggressively sought my comment. Because the T-shirts had nothing to do with me
or KGIA, I saw no reason to discuss the issue with the media. I agreed to an
interview with a reporter from The Post at the D.O.E.’s insistence. During the
interview, the reporter asked about the Arabic origin of the word “intifada.” I
told him that the root word from which the word intifada originates means “shake
off” and that the word intifada has different meanings for different people, but
certainly for many, given its association with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict,
it implied violence. I reiterated that I would never affiliate myself with an
individual or organization that would condone violence in any shape, way, or
form. In response to a further question, I expressed the belief that the teenage
girls of AWAAM did not mean to promote a “Gaza-style uprising” in New York City.

Although The Post story distorted my words, it accurately reflected my view
that I do not condone violence. That should have been the end of the matter.
D.O.E. officials should simply have said that it was clear that neither I nor
KGIA had any connection to the T-shirts. They should have pointed out that I had
devoted my entire adult life to the peaceful resolution of conflict and to
building bridges between ethnic and religious communities. In other words, they
should have said that the attacks upon me were utterly baseless. Instead, they
forced me to issue an apology for what I said. And when the storm of hate
continued, they forced me to resign.

In closing, permit me to explain why I am speaking out at this time. While I
have been the victim of a serious injustice, the far larger offense has been to
the Arab and Muslim communities of New York City. In the years since 9/11, our
communities have been the object of the most vile and hateful attacks.

None more vile and hateful than 9/11 Dabah.

The
attacks on me are part of a larger campaign to intimidate and silence
marginalized communities. Among other strategies, the right-wing is trying to
get people from other communities to view Arabs and Muslims as threats to their
safety and security. As a result, well-meaning people sometimes act out of
fear—not just a knee-jerk anti-Arab, anti-Muslim response, but the fear that, if
they do not succumb to right-wing pressure, they too will become targets.

Those seeking to harm our communities would like nothing more than for me to
remain silent in response to their hate. For the sake of the Arab and Muslim
communities and for all marginalized communities, for the sake of the families
of KGIA, and for the sake of all of us committed to creating a society that we
can be proud to leave to future generations, I stand here today to say that they
will not prevail. I will continue to stand against division, intimidation and
hatred; I will stand for a society based on mutual respect and understanding and
dignity for all our communities. These are values to which I have devoted my
entire adult life and career.

I am applying to be the principal of KGIA because, as its founding principal
and the person who envisioned the school, I believe I am the person most
qualified to be its educational leader. Throughout the planning process, I
worked with a wonderful and devoted design team comprised of educators, parents,
students, and community members. I would like to continue that work and to build
KGIA into a model dual language school that, to quote KGIA’s mission statement,
“helps students of all backgrounds learn about the world” and fosters in them
“an understanding of different cultures, a love of learning, and desire for
excellence in all of its students.”

Ms. Almontaser’s resignation came amid the treacherous
ethnic and ideological currents of New York City politics. Some protesters
have rallied in her defense and demanded that
she be reinstated.

David Cantor, a spokesman for the Department of Education, responded to Ms.
Almontaser’s account with the following statement:

In August, Ms. Almontaser said she resigned as principal from Khalil Gibran
International Academy to protect the stability of the school and give it “the
full opportunity to flourish.” The Chancellor agreed with her decision, accepted
her resignation, and now considers the matter closed.

She would not take questions. The comments on that article from clueless New Yorkers defy all logic and reason. These folks are dying to hand the reins of liberal democracy over to neanderthals and death cultists.

Z adds, “the most qualified educator” openly blackmails City: “Mr. Levine said he might revoke the lawsuit,… if the DOE allows Ms. Almontaser to be reinstated as principal”.

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