COME SEPTEMBER: A MADRASA IN BROOKLYN. From Daniel Pipes:

Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a "multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction."

While there is nothing wrong with Muslims having their own school, Pipes points out potential dangers.

He quotes Franck Salameh, who taught Arabic at a prestigious American language school--Middlebury College in Vermont. In an article for the Middle East Quarterly, Salameh wrote: that students

leave indoctrinated with a tendentious Arab nationalist reading of Middle Eastern history. Permeating lectures and carefully-designed grammatical drills, Middlebury instructors push the idea that Arab identity trumps local identities and that respect for minority ethnic and sectarian communities betrays Arabism.

Pipes also profiles the school's principal-designate Dhabah Almontaser and her extremist views.

Read the whole thing.

Yeshiva was never like this.

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