Another look
When I wrote about the proposed Arabic-Language secondary school in Brooklyn I missed a quote of the planed to be principal of this school:
Arabs or Muslims, Almontaser says, are innocent of the 9/11 atrocities: "I don’t recognize the people who committed the attacks as either Arabs or Muslims." Instead, she blames 9/11 on Washington’s foreign policies, saying they "can have been triggered by the way the USA breaks its promises with countries across the world, especially in the Middle East, and the fact that it has not been a fair mediator."
It is rather alarming that a school principle, one that the city of NY intend putting in charge of educating young children in already controversial school, choose to deal with problematic fact by simply denying them. Not that I suggest that the terror attacks carried on 9/11 were fault of the entire Arab world, however the terrorist were in fact Arab and Muslim and came from some background.
If Almonster want to preach her believes, she should be free to do so. However the NY tax payers shouldn’t be forced to fund her.
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Rogel @ May 2, 2007