Thomas More Law Center Challenges Islamic Public School

The City of New York is planning to open the Khalil Gibran International Academy on September 4th.  The Thomas More Law Center plans on stopping it.

“This proposed public school is nothing more than an incubator for the radicalization that leads to terrorism, as a NYPD Intelligence Report warned Americans just about two weeks ago,” cautioned Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center. “Rather than use the public school system to assimilate Muslims and other immigrants into American culture, New York City is doing everything it can to keep them isolated – a target rich environment for recruiting potential new homegrown terrorists and a recipe for a future 911 disaster, according to my read of the NYPD Report,” said Thompson.

Continued Thompson, “As uncomfortable as it makes one feel, we must understand that the political goal of radical Islam is to destroy our Judeo-Christian culture. And the KGIA is a Trojan Horse New York City is building for radical Islam with taxpayer money. That the Quran calls for Muslims to subjugate the world, especially Christians and Jews, is a fact that anyone can look up.”

Thompson further added, “New York City School Chancellor, Joel Klein, who is aggressively promoting this Islamic school, is the same person who refused to allow two Christian students, a second and a fourth grader, to display a nativity scene during Christmas—another example of how political correctness is leading to a malicious double standard when it comes to religious expression in public schools.”

This is the same public school who had its first principal resign due to her defending a t-shirt which read “Intifada NYC.”

Two big problems with this school.  One, this type of school does not facilitate assimilation into the American culture, but encourages seperate cultures.  That is a formula for disaster.  You cannot serve two masters.

The new school’s executive summary talks about students in hallways adorned with portraits of Arab philosophers, inventors, poets and musicians. But it doesn’t mention George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln.

Is this a public school in New York, or Islamabad?

Second, why are public tax dollars going to a school whose focus is Islam?  And don’t try to tell me it isn’t. 

On KGIA’s advisory board is Imam Talib Abdul-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, which proclaims this slogan: “The Quran is our constitution, Jihad is our way, And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.”

The Advisory Board has imams on it.  This is a publicly funded madrassa.  Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.