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Reader comment on item: On New York's "Khalil Gibran International Academy"
Submitted by Joshua (United States), Mar 16, 2007 at 09:55
It does not come as a surprise that some are under the impression that by learning Arabic you are about to achieve "salvation" or some kind of morals. Isn't it a common belief that the Koran can not be properly understood unless read in the original Arabic?
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| Dhabi al-Montaser is a professional victim [61 words] | Leslie | Jan 20, 2017 15:41 | 235619 | ||
| 2 | Tax payer money should not support any such thing as Khalil Gibran masquerading school [68 words] | Prashant | Jul 2, 2011 01:58 | 186971 | |
| 1 | One sentence says it all [38 words] | Kurt Basking | Mar 20, 2010 06:46 | 170434 | |
| Hmmm ... [57 words] | TinFoil | Mar 16, 2010 22:04 | 170258 | ||
 Me too. [28 words] | Glenda Lough | Mar 27, 2010 19:27 | 170258 | ||
| Awake [58 words] | kuroush | Aug 22, 2011 23:21 | 170258 | ||
| 1 | The fact she is part of the islamist group C.A.I.R. is reason enough to consider her unfit to teach children. ...Mar.2010 [145 words] | Phil Greend | Mar 13, 2010 21:58 | 170108 | |
| Careless use of terminology [94 words] | TinFoil | Mar 17, 2010 19:22 | 170108 | ||
| TinFoil's comments are misleading. [272 words] | Kurt Basking | Mar 21, 2010 18:06 | 170108 | ||
| Back atcha Kurt [249 words] | TinFoil | Mar 22, 2010 19:28 | 170108 | ||
| I do not expect religious schools subsidized by tax monies in a free society. [23 words] | Tom Dundee | Mar 27, 2010 19:32 | 170108 | ||
| Let the sun shine in... and dry up the rot. [157 words] | RobW | Dec 10, 2008 16:58 | 144839 | ||
| Islamic USA? Obama, Islam and the election ...now islamic madrassas? [597 words] | Gabrielle (from downunder) | Dec 10, 2008 02:46 | 144765 | ||
| really? [95 words] | The American | Jul 15, 2009 08:48 | 144765 | ||
| Would they like some cheese with that whine? [89 words] | Lynn | Dec 9, 2008 08:34 | 144716 | ||
| CAIR and Obama [65 words] | Carlita | Nov 6, 2008 23:23 | 142334 | ||
| Plain-talkin' Dabah [127 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Aug 10, 2008 10:07 | 136528 | ||
| ATTENTION: Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan BEWARE, here comes,DHABAH the Fashionable [51 words] | Joe Kaffir | Jul 18, 2008 02:27 | 135352 | ||
| Almontasser Commentary. [373 words] | Ynnatchkah | Jul 16, 2008 08:55 | 135271 | ||
| Saad Eddin Ibrahim being persecuted, makes me SICK. [242 words] | Ynnatchkah | Aug 11, 2008 14:12 | 135271 | ||
| Islamic Indoctrination in text [367 words] | Archimedes2 | Jul 15, 2008 18:25 | 135238 | ||
| " Self " absence of logic [451 words] | Ynnatchkah | Jul 10, 2008 02:42 | 134761 | ||
| Daniel Pipes' comment on David Cantor's email to the Sun [86 words] | self | Apr 29, 2008 00:46 | 127138 | ||
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| Moral decay in education. [144 words] | Catarin | Jul 12, 2008 20:39 | 127138 | ||
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| Relgion vs. Ideology [99 words] | Rochelle Michaels | May 3, 2008 19:53 | 127116 | ||
| We Need to Understand [11 words] | Glenda Lough | Mar 27, 2010 19:36 | 127116 | ||
| Dhabah makes it to the front page on the NYT [60 words] | dhimmi no more | Apr 28, 2008 18:32 | 127112 | ||
| GIBRAN [37 words] | Ghaliyeh | Apr 6, 2008 13:49 | 124854 | ||
| Brooklyn's Maronite Christians [48 words] | GWK | Apr 28, 2008 17:24 | 124854 | ||
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| explain [20 words] | zodiaclove | Oct 7, 2008 16:22 | 118364 | ||
| Theater Of The Absurd...That We Must Take Seriously [275 words] | Geoff | Jan 10, 2008 10:40 | 117897 | ||
| Intrinsic Discrimination [194 words] | Ynnatchkah | Jan 10, 2008 02:07 | 117870 | ||
| Try to be constructive, please [160 words] | The Northern Wind | Jan 8, 2008 22:38 | 117773 | ||
| Muslim Conquests of Intellectually Superior People Whose Knowledge Was Then Attributed To Muslim Conquerers [89 words] | Rick | Nov 20, 2007 19:29 | 114171 | ||
| Few things from islam [130 words] | Vijay | Nov 21, 2007 04:59 | 114171 | ||
| About zero [63 words] | nadia | Oct 25, 2007 02:16 | 112308 | ||
| A study on Value of zero [25 words] | Nishad.T.M | Aug 12, 2008 04:50 | 112308 | ||
| Almontasser Playing Victim to get a Job: Incompetent. [152 words] | Ynnatchkah | Oct 19, 2007 00:37 | 111905 | ||
| The Bi Lingual Arabic School [315 words] | Titania Jones | Oct 1, 2007 11:32 | 110037 | ||
| I heard today the ACLU is going to take it [10 words] | Juanita | Sep 4, 2007 23:20 | 107715 | ||
| Gibran rolling in his grave [129 words] | Sami | Aug 23, 2007 10:58 | 106837 | ||
| 1 | Donation [39 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | john heffron | Aug 17, 2007 12:28 | 106421 | |
| Chris Matthews and America's "Inability" to Connect with the Muslim World [712 words] | gary fouse | Aug 16, 2007 23:30 | 106397 | ||
| Leave Khalil Gibran Alone [71 words] | Joseph | Aug 14, 2007 08:59 | 106181 | ||
| reply [61 words] | Mike Foster | Dec 3, 2007 14:57 | 106181 | ||
| "Leave Khalil Gibran Alone" II [198 words] | Joseph | Dec 5, 2007 09:35 | 106181 | ||
| 1 | The value of the Khalil Gibran School [382 words] | Gabeely Amreeky | Aug 13, 2007 00:05 | 105987 | |
| Muslim Schools in America [114 words] | Iftikhar Ahmad | Aug 28, 2007 17:15 | 105987 | ||
| Our dear Iftikhar Ahamd, rabina yaftakhiru bi3ilmihu and Basil Bunting and anemia [283 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 29, 2007 07:00 | 105987 | ||
| response to iftikhar ahmad [71 words] | gary fouse | Sep 2, 2007 14:02 | 105987 | ||
| Gibran Academy [56 words] | gary fouse | Sep 2, 2007 14:07 | 105987 | ||
| Response to dhimmi no more [269 words] | omm | Sep 4, 2007 18:05 | 105987 | ||
| Our dear Omm and big Islamic falsafa [88 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 6, 2007 07:35 | 105987 | ||
| Our dear Omm and Q14:4 [102 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 6, 2007 07:44 | 105987 | ||
| To onm [164 words] | Vijay | Sep 6, 2007 10:09 | 105987 | ||
| Our dear Omm al-faylasoofa al-kabeera (assuming that you are netaya) and the name of our dear Iftikhar [131 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 6, 2007 18:49 | 105987 | ||
| to dhimmi [231 words] | omm | Sep 7, 2007 04:01 | 105987 | ||
| For Our dear Omm and Islam is the religion of the Arabs and you ain't no Arab part deux [253 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 8, 2007 06:50 | 105987 | ||
| For Our dear Omm and Islam is the religion of the Arabs and you ain't no Arab part trois [237 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 8, 2007 07:02 | 105987 | ||
| For our dear Omm and gem time [260 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 8, 2007 11:00 | 105987 | ||
| For our dear Omm and gem time part deux [257 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 8, 2007 11:17 | 105987 | ||
| For our dear Omm and gem time part trois [161 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 8, 2007 11:44 | 105987 | ||
| Programming? [36 words] | Ed | Nov 9, 2007 12:42 | 105987 | ||
| intrinsically disordered... [174 words] | donvan | Nov 21, 2007 16:19 | 105987 | ||
| Compliments of the Season [30 words] | Iftikhar Ahmad | Dec 21, 2007 13:29 | 105987 | ||
| THE SKOOL IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH RELIGION JUST ARABIC LANGUAGE!!!!!!!! [94 words] | natalie | May 20, 2008 18:09 | 105987 | ||
| Islamist and Liberal Jewish Stupidity, side by side. [94 words] | Ynnatchkah | Aug 11, 2007 18:51 | 105930 | ||
| Dhabah al-montaser strikes again [141 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 10, 2007 17:47 | 105854 | ||
| islamic intifada academic school [256 words] | david | Aug 11, 2007 11:05 | 105854 | ||
| More drama from our dear Dhabah al-Montaser "malikat al-ruwaya al-taskhisiya" or the "drama queen" [146 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 11, 2007 14:28 | 105854 | ||
| dhabah and fantasy world [74 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 13, 2007 19:30 | 105854 | ||
| Khalil Gibran for Intifada- The Secret was revealed- NYTimes is schocked..... [104 words] | Ynnatchkah | Aug 8, 2007 21:25 | 105736 | ||
| Exposure to Islam [171 words] | Richard Goodman | Aug 7, 2007 13:56 | 105629 | ||
| called islamic terror school [279 words] | david | Jul 26, 2007 14:59 | 104874 | ||
| the title doesn't matter [162 words] | shaif yahya | Jun 4, 2007 18:42 | 96021 | ||
| You're right, "the title doesn't matter". [118 words] | Moshe | Jun 7, 2007 07:24 | 96021 | ||
| how can i reply to some one [16 words] | shaif yahya | Jun 13, 2007 21:16 | 96021 | ||
| British Schools [63 words] | Iftikhar Ahmad | May 28, 2007 05:45 | 94999 | ||
| exploitation of non-Muslims [126 words] | Vijay | Jul 31, 2007 10:41 | 94999 | ||
| British Schools [202 words] | Iftikhar Ahmad | Jul 31, 2007 18:02 | 94999 | ||
| Easy solutions [426 words] | Vijay | Aug 1, 2007 16:56 | 94999 | ||
| wrong.. [126 words] | donvan | Aug 7, 2007 15:30 | 94999 | ||
| British Schools [129 words] | Iftikhar Ahmad | Aug 7, 2007 16:22 | 94999 | ||
| Why only Muslims? [357 words] | Vijay | Aug 12, 2007 18:05 | 94999 | ||
| Iftiqar ahmed's George Bernard shaw quote is available on this non-islamist website: [53 words] | nadia | Oct 25, 2007 01:42 | 94999 | ||
| George Bernard Shaw [66 words] | Glenda Lough | Mar 27, 2010 19:21 | 94999 | ||
| 1 | Go Ahead With School But... [173 words] | J. Lev | May 16, 2007 10:57 | 93175 | |
| Come on Mr.Pipes - Don't mislead us. [312 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Jimmy | May 14, 2007 02:49 | 92770 | ||
| what a pity... [166 words] | donvan | Aug 7, 2007 16:18 | 92770 | ||
| The shame of it all (August 10th, 2007 update) [238 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Aug 15, 2007 06:53 | 92770 | ||
| To Jimmy, a different perspective. [725 words] | Ynnatchkah | Oct 20, 2007 19:45 | 92770 | ||
| To Jimmy, a different perspective. II [312 words] | Ynnatchkah | Oct 20, 2007 22:30 | 92770 | ||
| Hi there [368 words] | nadia | Oct 25, 2007 01:20 | 92770 | ||
| agreed [98 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Oct 25, 2007 19:43 | 92770 | ||
| what is happening in Sudan is wrong [561 words] | nadia | Oct 27, 2007 17:58 | 92770 | ||
| Patricia Crone [130 words] | nadia | Oct 27, 2007 18:08 | 92770 | ||
| I do agree [88 words] | mandino | Dec 8, 2008 04:57 | 92770 | ||
| any other Arabic speakers/students who'd like to work on getting non jihadi Arabic classes in schools? [151 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Ann Marlowe | Apr 25, 2007 02:35 | 90574 | ||
| Great idea [267 words] | dhimmi no more | May 17, 2007 06:39 | 90574 | ||
| Higher Ed. is a better plan [138 words] | J. Lev | May 18, 2007 13:06 | 90574 | ||
| New update to this matter [18 words] | Naphtali Barzelay | Apr 13, 2007 03:51 | 89116 | ||
| one million american conversions? [37 words] | Kat | Apr 9, 2007 03:26 | 88903 | ||
| Shame on Board of Education. [225 words] | Nonna | Mar 21, 2007 09:52 | 87472 | ||
| then ........ [62 words] | Kat | Apr 9, 2007 03:39 | 87472 | ||
| propaganda [22 words] | jon purizhansky | Mar 21, 2007 07:46 | 87437 | ||
| Arabic dreams [122 words] | Arthur B. | Mar 20, 2007 17:12 | 87265 | ||
| 1 | SO TRUE.. [66 words] | DONVAN | Mar 19, 2007 08:31 | 86883 | |
| No room for Arabic ideology in American public schools [236 words] | Richard G. Clements | Mar 18, 2007 00:52 | 86679 | ||
| separations......... [36 words] | Kat | Apr 9, 2007 03:35 | 86679 | ||
| Not only the zero [86 words] | TimeToSpeak | Mar 17, 2007 15:40 | 86639 | ||
| 1 | Indian Mathematicians [163 words] | J Campbell | Mar 18, 2007 10:21 | 86639 | |
| Need strong Police for robbers [2159 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh BharatPanthi | Sep 1, 2010 04:15 | 86639 | ||
| Concept of zero [153 words] | Mark Farber | Mar 17, 2007 11:20 | 86623 | ||
| The Zero [40 words] | Jackie Goymour | Mar 19, 2007 06:11 | 86623 | ||
| More detail on the NON ARAB origins of Zero [165 words] | Mark | Mar 19, 2007 22:26 | 86623 | ||
| They have lied for centuries!!! [93 words] | Jaladhi | Mar 20, 2007 18:06 | 86623 | ||
| 1 | Arabs did NOT invent the concept of ZERO [136 words] | Betsy Ross | Mar 21, 2007 13:22 | 86623 | |
| Concept of Zero in Mathematics [32 words] | CN | Jan 21, 2010 14:02 | 86623 | ||
| Islamic school in London UK [91 words] | Colin | Mar 17, 2007 00:03 | 86592 | ||
| America's biggest mistake!!! [39 words] | Pravin | May 9, 2007 08:57 | 86592 | ||
| islamic terror academic school in brooklyn- we do not need arabic [640 words] | daved | Jul 28, 2007 11:37 | 86592 | ||
| islamic academic school to fight u.s.a later on [252 words] | daved | Aug 2, 2007 14:27 | 86592 | ||
| On New York's "Khalil Gibran International Academy" [522 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | John Abi-Habib | Mar 16, 2007 23:01 | 86585 | ||
| Response to John Abi-Habib [148 words] | J Campbell | Mar 18, 2007 09:55 | 86585 | ||
| Concept of Zero [223 words] | John Abi-Habib | Mar 28, 2007 09:07 | 86585 | ||
| Dear Readers [34 words] | Adel Attiyeh | Sep 23, 2008 10:01 | 86585 | ||
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| The Fallacy of the scarcity of Arabic Speakers. A plot by public agencies. [1630 words] | Ynna | Mar 16, 2007 21:33 | 86578 | ||
| Arabic School [44 words] | Herb Jurist | Mar 16, 2007 20:17 | 86575 | ||
| Qui s'excuse.....! [397 words] | Nick4693 | Mar 16, 2007 19:08 | 86563 | ||
| Pre-2003 Arabic Instruction at USF [345 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | DanteAmongtheHypocrites | Mar 16, 2007 17:08 | 86538 | |
| D E P O R T A T I O N [57 words] | Kat | Jun 11, 2007 22:26 | 86538 | ||
| Problem with the quality of Arabic language instruction, or the quality of translations? [432 words] | James Vesce | Jun 26, 2007 20:35 | 86538 | ||
| Sounds like Charter schools in the south [235 words] | j | Mar 16, 2007 17:06 | 86537 | ||
| Academia [47 words] | Steven L | Mar 16, 2007 17:00 | 86534 | ||
| Zero [13 words] | enkay | Mar 16, 2007 16:19 | 86525 | ||
| Islamic academy [253 words] | Ayodhya Prasad Tripathi | Mar 16, 2007 13:10 | 86509 | ||
| Adequate Precedent Exists for an 'Appropriate' Approach [121 words] | Jack Berger | Mar 16, 2007 11:57 | 86459 | ||
| Asian culture and Arabic language- [105 words] | RitaSue Siegel | Mar 16, 2007 11:21 | 86456 | ||
 I'm not surprised [47 words] | Joshua | Mar 16, 2007 09:55 | 86452 | ||
| Khalil Gibran was Christian [27 words] | Dennis D | Mar 11, 2007 09:41 | 85845 | ||
| 3 | Kahlil Gibran was a christian [173 words] | Olie | Apr 18, 2007 00:15 | 85845 | |
| Arab Christians [23 words] | Dennis | Mar 11, 2007 09:37 | 85842 | ||
| islam did not invent zero or much else except to spread their faith by the sword [158 words] | M E Webb | Mar 11, 2007 09:06 | 85833 | ||
| Zero was invented in India [35 words] | greg | Mar 15, 2007 01:16 | 85833 | ||
| science should be used in right way [33 words] | srikar karatlapalli | Apr 23, 2007 11:46 | 85833 | ||
| real truth about zero [77 words] | siddiqui sarfaraz | Nov 30, 2007 10:36 | 85833 | ||
| Zero was invented by Indian the grate Ramanujadhasar [12 words] | mgln | Apr 6, 2009 13:14 | 85833 | ||
| The nr. zero was invented independently in India and by the Ramanujadhasar [130 words] | Mouguilan | Apr 6, 2009 13:28 | 85833 | ||
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| Not much hope [55 words] | S Jain | Mar 8, 2007 13:15 | 81776 | ||
| its deja vu all over again [56 words] | david g | Mar 8, 2007 18:30 | 81776 | ||
| They contributed less than 0... [322 words] | Archimedes2 | Mar 8, 2007 08:45 | 81712 | ||
| Very well Said Archimedes2 [3 words] | YnnaTchkah | Mar 8, 2007 23:59 | 81712 | ||
| Learning Arabic [191 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 8, 2007 06:52 | 81424 | ||
| A LITTLE BIT OF MECCA IN THE US... [38 words] | DONVAN | Mar 9, 2007 17:15 | 81424 | ||
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| Use of Arabic [197 words] | Fred Schlomka | Mar 15, 2007 02:21 | 81424 | ||
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| Hebrew idioms [27 words] | Fred Schlomka - speaker of Hebrew | Mar 26, 2007 12:46 | 81424 | ||
| Of course.. [136 words] | donvan | Nov 23, 2007 14:00 | 81424 | ||
| I hope, but how? To Donvan [157 words] | Ynnatchkah | Nov 23, 2007 22:19 | 81424 | ||
| BECAUSE.. [119 words] | DONVAN | Nov 26, 2007 09:29 | 81424 | ||
| Keep on writing. [12 words] | Ynnatchkah | Nov 26, 2007 18:49 | 81424 | ||
| a HINDU invented zero [45 words] | frustrated indian | May 3, 2008 16:17 | 81424 | ||
| Reply to frustrated Indian [104 words] | Gary R. White | May 15, 2008 17:55 | 81424 | ||
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