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Abandoning Arabic in favour of English
Reader comment on item: A Madrasa Grows in Brooklyn
in response to reader comment: The victory of Arabs in America
Submitted by R K Iyer (India), May 12, 2007 at 11:22
The best and surest way of defeating the xenophobia-filled instruction in Arabic is for Arabic-speaking Christians to abandon Arabic in favour of a European language, preferably English. When large numbers of Egyptian and Lebanese Christians install English as a primary language in their lives, the Islamic bigotry built into Arabic will begin to be sidelined. I have a concrete plan and if anyone is interested, I could outline the plan for a systematic abandoning of Arabic by Arabic-speaking non-Muslims.
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| Point of Disagreement [38 words] | RobertDC | Mar 29, 2012 16:15 | 194857 | ||
| 1 | Why not enroll your Jewish & Christian children? [288 words] | AWB | Aug 14, 2007 15:23 | 106211 | |
| this idea could help america [127 words] | shaif yahya | Jun 6, 2007 17:00 | 96286 | ||
 Communication [14 words] | DennisOS2 | Jul 24, 2007 22:03 | 96286 | ||
| Yaya....Why not offer Arabic in any public school. [27 words] | Froike | Jan 27, 2009 13:06 | 96286 | ||
| Whom to believe ? Pipes or ADL ? [142 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Gershon Goldsteen | May 26, 2007 22:58 | 94710 | ||
| You are afraid of people converting to Islam [145 words] | Generation of Tomorrow | May 19, 2007 18:05 | 93656 | ||
| 1 | To Generation of Tomorrow (GoT): Islam brings me out in a cold sweat [502 words] | Plato | May 21, 2007 06:34 | 93656 | |
| 2 | Afraid of Islam! [293 words] | Guy Leven-Torres (Agricola) | May 23, 2007 16:47 | 93656 | |
| support arab liberalism [56 words] | samy | Jun 1, 2007 10:02 | 93656 | ||
| 1 | Converting [150 words] | joeyindc | Jun 7, 2007 20:36 | 93656 | |
| about islam [182 words] | alvin | Aug 26, 2007 23:12 | 93656 | ||
| It looks like you are afraid of Islam, maybe because it's the truth? [75 words] | plusaf | Jan 23, 2008 02:02 | 93656 | ||
| Afraid of Christianity and people like you ! [229 words] | zasho | Apr 24, 2010 06:19 | 93656 | ||
| You are afraid of people converting to Islam [3 words] | mm | Jul 3, 2012 11:33 | 93656 | ||
| Jelousies and poisonous by nature [155 words] | Kalam | Jun 25, 2018 06:21 | 93656 | ||
| Madrasa grown in Brooklyn [91 words] | Lorie Newcomb | May 16, 2007 13:28 | 93248 | ||
| the tolerance is the best drug [18 words] | samy | Jun 1, 2007 10:05 | 93248 | ||
| 1 | What could be more un-American than a culture-specific school? [221 words] | James A. Bridge | May 16, 2007 12:16 | 93216 | |
| Debbie seems genuine and right [224 words] | Manav | May 5, 2007 03:21 | 91690 | ||
| reply to "debbie seems genuine and right". [112 words] | romain | May 7, 2007 04:49 | 91690 | ||
| THE ISLAMIST MODEL [353 words] | Robert Thomas | May 8, 2007 11:53 | 91690 | ||
| muslims want to take over [13 words] | tabingins911 | May 13, 2007 01:13 | 91690 | ||
| Division not necessary [70 words] | Anthony Perez | May 16, 2007 09:02 | 91690 | ||
| The Truth behind Madrassas ! An eye opener for all ! [128 words] | Veer | May 4, 2007 10:38 | 91642 | ||
| NY Times suggests opening of the school will be postponed (5/4) [78 words] | R. Davidson | May 4, 2007 08:02 | 91629 | ||
| madrasa [39 words] | jon purizhansky | May 3, 2007 23:41 | 91584 | ||
| What about Christian Madrasas? [174 words] | Muhammad Jesus Moses | Apr 30, 2007 00:21 | 91087 | ||
| Apples and Oranges [22 words] | Constantine Kipnis | Apr 30, 2007 14:01 | 91087 | ||
| You are 100% wrong [155 words] | Bharat Khan | Apr 30, 2007 19:53 | 91087 | ||
| Why not? [140 words] | Rodni E. Chalet | May 1, 2007 00:40 | 91087 | ||
| 2 | boo hoo, you said it yourself [111 words] | susan | May 1, 2007 14:10 | 91087 | |
| I'm glad your curiousity was not punished. Some others aren't as lucky. [199 words] | Constantine Kipnis | May 1, 2007 17:15 | 91087 | ||
| Our dear Muhammad and his bogus Arabic [100 words] | dhimmi no more | May 2, 2007 18:24 | 91087 | ||
| Just one problem, Rodni [456 words] | Jeff | May 3, 2007 18:05 | 91087 | ||
| down with muslim madarsas [121 words] | surj | May 7, 2007 17:11 | 91087 | ||
| wake up. [63 words] | surjit | May 7, 2007 17:34 | 91087 | ||
| Madras in Brooklyn, NY [43 words] | Ed Melik, Esq. | May 14, 2007 12:10 | 91087 | ||
| My letter to Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York Department of Education [704 words] | Constantine Kipnis | Apr 29, 2007 15:53 | 91054 | ||
| Are You Kidding? [71 words] | Marlene Barry | Apr 28, 2007 17:17 | 91028 | ||
| No break [43 words] | Terry | Apr 30, 2007 16:35 | 91028 | ||
| about madrasa [86 words] | sam | Apr 27, 2007 23:55 | 90998 | ||
| "Political Correctness" Gone Out of Control? [239 words] | Judith Carpet | Apr 27, 2007 23:05 | 90992 | ||
| A Mahadrasha Grows in Brooklyn [194 words] | Maurice | Apr 27, 2007 12:56 | 90925 | ||
| The opening of the Khalil Gibran International Academy [58 words] | Nili Biondi | Apr 27, 2007 10:13 | 90903 | ||
| A Madrasa Grows in Brooklyn Art.No. 4441 [59 words] | S.C.Panda | Apr 27, 2007 04:37 | 90870 | ||
| Are Americans naive! Is this a new Jihad training center, this time in USA! [212 words] | Egyptian Christian | Apr 26, 2007 10:56 | 90734 | ||
| Know Thine Enemy [590 words] | Abu Nuwas | Apr 26, 2007 09:53 | 90726 | ||
| dangerous [171 words] | Terry | Apr 30, 2007 16:50 | 90726 | ||
| A Madrasa Grows in Brooklyn [28 words] | David R.Groesbeck | Apr 26, 2007 04:32 | 90698 | ||
| Islam out of control [120 words] | G.Vishvas | Apr 26, 2007 01:39 | 90686 | ||
| Your vision & mission is to create friction and hate [163 words] | Ravi Jain | Apr 26, 2007 20:23 | 90686 | ||
| I agree with you 100%. [93 words] | Egyptian Christian | Apr 27, 2007 04:22 | 90686 | ||
| To Mr. "Jain" [294 words] | G.Vishvas | Apr 27, 2007 16:15 | 90686 | ||
| Venom [74 words] | Frahad Navkhoda | Apr 30, 2007 04:33 | 90686 | ||
| To Frahad Jain [215 words] | G.Vishvas | May 1, 2007 06:30 | 90686 | ||
| You are right - G. Vishvas [154 words] | Jaladhi | May 1, 2007 22:25 | 90686 | ||
| Face of an extremist is like a multi-headed God [344 words] | Frahad Navkhoda | May 2, 2007 05:29 | 90686 | ||
| Bravo Frahad [77 words] | G.Vishvas | May 3, 2007 03:47 | 90686 | ||
| 2 Farhad "Christian Fundies give headache while Islamics cut the Head" [303 words] | skmiller | May 3, 2007 10:33 | 90686 | ||
| Best commnets I ever seen! [70 words] | Judeo Chrislam | May 7, 2007 01:02 | 90686 | ||
| That's a simple one... [179 words] | Frahad Navkhoda | Jan 24, 2008 11:03 | 90686 | ||
| 1 | Scrutiny, Awareness, education and debate [2471 words] | Ibby | Sep 12, 2010 18:09 | 90686 | |
| stop the complaining [166 words] | Muslim | Apr 25, 2007 22:56 | 90679 | ||
| to muslim [22 words] | me | Apr 26, 2007 17:19 | 90679 | ||
| ...more than 1400 years. [170 words] | Muslim | Apr 26, 2007 23:15 | 90679 | ||
| to muslim (II) [158 words] | G.Vishvas | Apr 27, 2007 04:03 | 90679 | ||
| mollah [111 words] | true believer | Apr 27, 2007 12:41 | 90679 | ||
| 6 | Mr. Muslim, Aya 33.50 convinced me the truth of Islam [211 words] | New muslim | Apr 27, 2007 17:16 | 90679 | |
| to muslim [69 words] | romain | Apr 27, 2007 22:15 | 90679 | ||
| Downfall of west. [114 words] | surj | Apr 28, 2007 19:05 | 90679 | ||
| to Muslim re: Stop the complaining [355 words] | Bill | Apr 29, 2007 16:42 | 90679 | ||
| yeah, sure!! [106 words] | Jaladhi | Apr 30, 2007 09:35 | 90679 | ||
| Who was the first muslim? [215 words] | morous | May 7, 2007 12:16 | 90679 | ||
| Education [172 words] | Sam Green | Aug 18, 2007 19:57 | 90679 | ||
| Wrong [26 words] | Rita | Aug 4, 2012 13:30 | 90679 | ||
| The Land of the Free? [368 words] | Avenger | Apr 25, 2007 21:32 | 90658 | ||
| Madrasa Grows In Brooklyn [73 words] | Anthony | Apr 25, 2007 19:09 | 90644 | ||
| My letter to Klein [193 words] | dan w. taliaferro | Apr 25, 2007 19:05 | 90642 | ||
| Islamic Accademy in Brooklyn [149 words] | Carol Solfronk | Apr 25, 2007 18:29 | 90639 | ||
| Don't Muslims pay Tax too? [26 words] | Frahad Navkhoda | Apr 26, 2007 06:50 | 90639 | ||
| Reply to 3 questions by Muslim writer [232 words] | Carol Solfronk | Apr 26, 2007 20:36 | 90639 | ||
| Reply to Frahad Navkhoda's questions [149 words] | Romesh Chander | Apr 26, 2007 22:22 | 90639 | ||
| Don't Catholics pay Tax too? [29 words] | Jeff | Apr 29, 2007 10:10 | 90639 | ||
| Dear J. K. Klein of New York City schools [152 words] | Colin | Apr 25, 2007 17:54 | 90634 | ||
| western politicians are fools! [135 words] | romain | Apr 25, 2007 19:35 | 90634 | ||
| One school out of many [38 words] | Frahad Navkhoda | Apr 26, 2007 06:53 | 90634 | ||
| a constitutional issue [217 words] | ajfest | Apr 25, 2007 15:31 | 90623 | ||
| ajfest [12 words] | Carol Solfronk | Apr 25, 2007 19:49 | 90623 | ||
| "Separate" equals "Unequal" [19 words] | James A. Bridge | May 16, 2007 12:31 | 90623 | ||
| My letter to Joel Klein [325 words] | James Vesce | Apr 25, 2007 15:15 | 90620 | ||
| Madrassas in America [17 words] | Cecil Donaho | Apr 25, 2007 14:58 | 90619 | ||
| When will the USA learn appeasement doesn't work [327 words] | Cheri Hunt | Apr 25, 2007 13:22 | 90608 | ||
| totally agree [95 words] | Terry | Apr 27, 2007 15:55 | 90608 | ||
| Madrasas have long been present in Canada... [356 words] | J.S. | Apr 25, 2007 13:19 | 90607 | ||
| So Many Questions [256 words] | Pat | Apr 25, 2007 11:41 | 90602 | ||
| Why Gibran? [31 words] | Pekka Surellat | Apr 25, 2007 10:46 | 90601 | ||
| Gibran background non Musim [119 words] | Dwight Brown | Apr 25, 2007 14:56 | 90601 | ||
| Dear Mr. Klein - Incomplete deNazification [93 words] | Norman Wand | Apr 25, 2007 08:48 | 90597 | ||
| Be efficient : be primitive. [177 words] | Raymond31 | Apr 25, 2007 07:13 | 90593 | ||
| Learn the Lessons of History [68 words] | Singha | Apr 25, 2007 01:27 | 90568 | ||
| Alarm bells are ringing [38 words] | Rajunov Singh | May 10, 2007 06:30 | 90568 | ||
| US Taxpayer Supported Madrasas.... [90 words] | Domenic Pepe | Apr 25, 2007 01:06 | 90566 | ||
| An Interesting (?) Name for this School ? [37 words] | Stevan Dweck, Ph.D. | Apr 25, 2007 01:02 | 90564 | ||
| No accident... [75 words] | donvan | Apr 26, 2007 16:04 | 90564 | ||
| Amen! [66 words] | Stevan Dweck, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2007 19:51 | 90564 | ||
| What did you expect -- call it Bin Laden Academy [71 words] | Romesh Chander | Apr 26, 2007 22:07 | 90564 | ||
| Embracing the best culture, not "multiculturalism" [321 words] | Caesar M. Arevalo | Apr 25, 2007 00:53 | 90563 | ||
| Love the title of this article... [167 words] | Richard House | Apr 25, 2007 00:42 | 90562 | ||
| Vouchers: another casualty in the war on terror [253 words] | Stuart Fagin | Apr 24, 2007 23:31 | 90559 | ||
| Who abuses madrasas? [434 words] | Bharat Khan | Apr 24, 2007 23:16 | 90558 | ||
| Turkish solution [62 words] | David W. Lincoln | Apr 24, 2007 22:58 | 90557 | ||
| and in spite of this [87 words] | susan | May 1, 2007 14:48 | 90557 | ||
| Lighting a candle [105 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 1, 2007 19:27 | 90557 | ||
| a totally different story [160 words] | susan | May 2, 2007 16:26 | 90557 | ||
| What can be redeemed? [184 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 2, 2007 19:12 | 90557 | ||
| what you greatly miss [233 words] | susan | May 3, 2007 18:12 | 90557 | ||
| Working with what is [65 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 5, 2007 12:04 | 90557 | ||
| progress and turkey should not be placed in the same sentence [197 words] | susan | May 5, 2007 18:20 | 90557 | ||
| Where we need to go to from here [237 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 6, 2007 20:15 | 90557 | ||
| not the smartest starting point [274 words] | susan | May 7, 2007 17:18 | 90557 | ||
| Once more, from the beginning [167 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 8, 2007 10:34 | 90557 | ||
| you're taking the longest path [217 words] | susan | May 9, 2007 06:06 | 90557 | ||
| Limited vision [180 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 9, 2007 19:06 | 90557 | ||
| 4 | china is a great civilization, no matter what [161 words] | susan | May 11, 2007 06:02 | 90557 | |
| Perspective [254 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 11, 2007 23:58 | 90557 | ||
| again ignorance of the basics of history [384 words] | susan | May 13, 2007 08:52 | 90557 | ||
| Touchy aren't we... [107 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 14, 2007 10:39 | 90557 | ||
| Some observations [163 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 14, 2007 12:23 | 90557 | ||
| no idea of what real politik is [127 words] | susan | May 15, 2007 15:44 | 90557 | ||
| Why do you look at the speck ... [184 words] | susan | May 15, 2007 15:50 | 90557 | ||
| Cui bono? [54 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 16, 2007 08:52 | 90557 | ||
| Papist-Caesaroism in other words? [187 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 16, 2007 09:07 | 90557 | ||
| who is doing more brigandage? [101 words] | susan | May 16, 2007 16:20 | 90557 | ||
| relativism never works [78 words] | susan | May 16, 2007 16:41 | 90557 | ||
| A different path [61 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 17, 2007 14:19 | 90557 | ||
| Combatting evil [35 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 17, 2007 14:22 | 90557 | ||
| that's an entirely different situation [123 words] | susan | May 17, 2007 17:20 | 90557 | ||
| wishful thinking [60 words] | susan | May 17, 2007 17:21 | 90557 | ||
| Stick to script [172 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 19, 2007 12:47 | 90557 | ||
| Clarification [72 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 19, 2007 12:50 | 90557 | ||
| what if? [80 words] | susan | May 21, 2007 08:15 | 90557 | ||
| not a smart comparison [55 words] | susan | May 21, 2007 08:19 | 90557 | ||
| With clarity and more words [316 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 22, 2007 10:50 | 90557 | ||
| The differences make the difference [318 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 22, 2007 11:05 | 90557 | ||
| whatever you think you have made clearer [51 words] | susan | May 24, 2007 04:42 | 90557 | ||
| Clarity and resolve [90 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 25, 2007 23:06 | 90557 | ||
| I hope there doesn't become a need for High School and Grammar School Campus Watch! [140 words] | larry | Apr 24, 2007 22:13 | 90551 | ||
| bravo for Multicultural curriculum! [28 words] | Elizabeth Ross, MD | Apr 24, 2007 21:13 | 90547 | ||
| A Madrasa in Brooklyn [114 words] | Roberto Vicencio | Apr 24, 2007 21:08 | 90546 | ||
| Muslim Schools in America [125 words] | Iftikhar Ahmad | May 16, 2007 10:49 | 90546 | ||
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| Questions for our dear Iftikhar Ahmad (PBUH aka صلى الله عليه وسلم) [272 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 27, 2018 06:02 | 90546 | ||
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| Time to put cameras in classrooms. [125 words] | paratisi | Apr 24, 2007 20:23 | 90541 | ||
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| Arabic Schools in US pose danger [82 words] | Tennisman | Apr 24, 2007 18:17 | 90534 | ||
| State Education Requirements [162 words] | Frank K. Hoover | Apr 24, 2007 17:33 | 90522 | ||
| Jihad Factory in New York!!! [172 words] | Romesh Chander | Apr 24, 2007 16:09 | 90514 | ||
| Love them "Hand Outs" [26 words] | Joe Schmoe USA | Apr 24, 2007 14:33 | 90510 | ||
| Arabic and anti-Semitism [215 words] | R K Iyer | Apr 25, 2007 02:22 | 90510 | ||
| A Jewish teacher meeting their standards [24 words] | O. Felmanova | Apr 25, 2007 11:58 | 90510 | ||
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