Separation of Church and State, Except Islam?

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."...An organization that lobbies for Arabic instruction, the Arabic Language Institute Foundation, claims knowledge of Islam's holy language can help the West recover from what its leader, Akhtar Emon, calls its "moral decay." In other words, Muslims tend to see non-Muslims learning Arabic as a step toward an eventual conversion to Islam...The school's key figure, principal-designate Dhabah ("Debbie") Almontaser, has a record of extremist views, as William A. Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz have shown at PipeLineNews.org...Arabs or Muslims, Ms. Almontaser says, are innocent of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: "I don't recognize the people who committed the attacks as either Arabs or Muslims."....A Madrassa Grows in Brooklyn, Daniel Pipes, The New York Sun, 4/24/2007

Pipes's disagreement is understated. This is grossly offensive to a Founding concept of the United States, supported for two centuries by Supreme Court rulings, that religious instruction does not ever belong in public schools. The more Mike Bloomberg is New York's Mayor, the more he and his appointees seem like the card-carrying, surrender monkey liberal he was before his "conversion" to the Republican Party.

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