would be done. by the time to thank you very much thank you. oh lord no caring. no yeah yeah yeah in the backyard i'm not in atlanta and we will not allow a much trust us to crop up and then spread all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provocative statements and do muslim schools have the right to exist. in defined new york city on r t. v guide

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surely is a place that represents the world community. the opportunity to teach arabic to students here in brooklyn i think is an opportunity that we should we shouldn't miss. and so when people made statements that would truly discriminatory of course of pain me and said me. certain feel mongering groups the play of the disco all would be a religious school which is a public school in america it could never be and it will not be these a situations with the strays told so phobic and racist reason our lives and groups should be ashamed of themselves we have the words in your dish a shocking. i believe there is an apology owed to debbie on it's us that i've known her for almost twenty years and i can say that she has been

a force of openness and cross cultural conversation believe me whenever there's a conference being organized to promote understanding between groups arabs and jews for example she is involved somehow either as the founder of or as an impact the one just. after at my forced resignation and really secluded myself from the public i knew that if i publicly spoke or end any information of what happened that it would have been deemed turned schools opening. all on the telly the early to reinstate f.b.i. metasearch as principal of the council on international have. i support this school because this school is a key. to understanding of the raid into the foot tapestry which makes up this great city and even though the world has many conflicts and i'm

a side that i'm pro israel let me be clear about it. those are my commitments lifelong commitment but if the solution to the problems is to arise i believe will arise from new york if the solution to those issues that destroy the world and peoples i should invite then are much more in common then then then distinctions then i believe that the prophet the suggestion will come from schools like this one is introduced to her no. no. credit being i would rather like warfare important would go to play alone on elected officials to act as leaders not to plant or to racism or bigotry but to stand. in the old city need to be careful not to move down the conservative element of the brands don't want to do drugs understand this theory help the department of education is going to let tabloid newspapers influence policy is beyond me and

it's atrocious and it's unacceptable if this is the deal only school why are they standing behind it as the mayor where is a. gray. area. why overcrowding is the arabic language such a threat. we found ourselves in the crossfire of a media war against the ledger brown academy because we produced t. shirts a few years ago that were the slogan intifada n.y.c. . my name is money. i'm funding director of arab women act is in the arts and media. educational programs that we provide for young women are not your average kind of program that you would see for us we engage in media production. and the star from their backyards. the mission

of a way to. basically encourage the leadership among young women of color and community organizing with the focus being on empowerment through the media. once i was gone from school and then when i stepped inside the bus some old guy was sitting on his chair and he started cursing me and telling me all your tears you want to get rave go back to your country he just comes out in no way says go back to your country you sound a lot and what you stand but that doesn't make me feel like i have to take my valid because it's part of my religion then i'm going to change what i wear because other people hate what i wear my be my religion what does that have to be that unless you are sure you know where they are. when the whole thing with the teacher blew up in august we were in the middle of

our summer program. we got together with several other groups and it formed the coalition communities in support of the senator brown international. intifada and why see it's not a call for a violent uprising in the big apple like the new york post stated it's actually a call for and power meant. it's also not of respect to the palestinian resistance against the illegal apartheid haitian people don't understand the word or they don't understand the palestinian struggle that's fine that's an opportunity for discussion and learning one of the videos that the girls have which is silence. and it really represented how drastically our were kings after the breaking of the news about our intifada t. shirts on film disrespect then discriminated against. because the terrorist because that's a full state. is good why the night and if it did they need that thank you so much

done with justice he should have the word intifada written on them so it all comes down to is who gets to define the father provocative where. do we have a right. yes. would i you know do i have regrets yes what i regret is that we can't even have a discussion about the meaning of the word i regret that we had to play into the story in this way and that had to turn out this way as soon as the controversy head . hundreds of emails and continue even now receiving emails asking for t. shirts and we haven't gotten around to replying to any of them we weren't set up to deal with you know hundreds of demands for t. shirts and then there were also people who set up their own intifada n.y.c. websites and selling into fight and i see teddy bears and. you know dog coats and the random as things it's really interesting.

couple of stops from ground zero in new york city's first all arabic school is opening its opening today in the borough of brooklyn critics though and there are many say that it could become a city funded breeding ground for extremists on the first day of school we put together a welcome table we engaged in a lot of activities to show the parents that we were really welcoming them from the community at least they saw friendly face there and somebody who was smiling at them and had a big sign saying welcome and then when we all went home and watched our televisions that night the publicist who was not good at all. we need more arabic speaking people because we're in a war with the arabic speaking world right now or at least members of it and you know it's like in world war two we. you'd have more people that speak german but what this class is from what i understand what the school is is an arabic culture

school we don't need to be teaching the arabic culture we don't need to be cheating the canadian culture we need to be teaching the american culture. my name is my secure my daughter serina mohammad she attends brand international cademy. my daughter was living with her mother she came to live with me last year so i had to get her into a public school and you took arabic every day. you know a a ticket to egypt. is there also a culture clash a certain arabic history class it's a story. we've frank zeman learning about like ancient rome. a lot of something that none of the other classes are based on anything we learn in the classes.

and early august of this year under pressure from the new york post and right wing bloggers representatives of the mare demanded that i resign as could be as a principal as an arab american muslim born in yemen and raised in the united states establishing to dia was my american dream. and however turned into an american nightmare i have today that netted my application so big the principal of the polio gibran international academy. i had also asked my lawyer to begin preparing

a lawsuit against the department of education for by relating my constitutional right. from the beginning. my view was. that. the first amendment issue was opening shot she quite clearly was discharged because of what she said about the intifada t. shirts what she said ought to be protected by the first amendment i think it's all wrapped up with the wider phenomenon. of islamophobia and the enormous sensitivity of by supporters of israel to anything that smacks of criticism of israel. i remember that day walking in. the court room. and really. not having any you know

feeling of confidence or you know i left it all in the hands of god. when the cross questioning took place by the lawyers from the city side it was just really intense the hardest moment for me was talking about my relationship with mayor or maybe trail reminiscing and all of the work that i had done to build bridges between the arab and muslim communities of new york city and his office and to see all that go down the drain was just really really painful. we all felt that testimony went well and i came out of their feeling that. we had made our case. as the judge began reading the

decision. there was sort of a visible and an auditory and some cases. you know of oh this is not the way this is going to go the judge didn't believe that my speaking to the new york post was protected speech and that my employer had the right to remove me if they wanted to know to me i thought that everybody get that we lost this i just found it stunning i thought of the study decision. to have a outer. ring happy back afterwards we just walk over. to my lawyers office and we just sat there and we consult on next steps then immediately my lawyers were like we're going to appeal this for not letting this.

it. appears saying a thing in me and in the interview that was incorrect. to tie their. you took it up when you look it up similar when you look it up you found me don't interrupt me when you looked it up you found her oh oh oh. interpretation of it was precisely correct. but it was a lot of words have more than one definition. you better not tell anyone what you found on google you're job may be in jeopardy here. for quite encouraged this was the first hearing at which there was a recognition but on the part of the judges that there is

a real issue of substance here free speech discrimination free. speech is for the conceit it puts me to say we're very conscious but we're just not usenet it's the response to her it's people is it really i can't believe the city really wants to take that position that there is a disruptive response to a misleading article. today that unfairly quotes a city employee then then they get disciplined that that's a that's a very unattractive position for a city to take i felt that that day in the court of appeals there was just a sense of justice and a sense of accountability you know of holding the city and the department of education accountable for their actions against me and made me feel like ok we're going to get somewhere here the underlying issue is whether or not. merely by

defining the word intifada to a newspaper reporter and generating some controversy one can lose a position with the belief or you see keep this one she was denied the position on constitutionally she should get the position back several weeks later we received the court of appeals decision and so their decision was not to grant me the relief . however what they do. insist upon was that the case go back to the lower court for a reexamination of the first amendment claim. a new principle consumes first arabic the public school the holy reich a former city teacher who also has international education experience this is the time to move forward to create the school that we all want and so i think that this

is a challenge and it's it's a positive challenge we will have a dual language program and it will be outstanding. good morning my name is how long all i'm from stop them and draw sir we're here this morning because we are concerned about the students being educated at. international academy what are you free to be taught at what we are afraid mike is a doctrine which would be empty western civilization the surrounding circumstances have given us enough cause to be very concerned about the teaching of arabic culture can be a form of indoctrination into a radical islamist regime i think what's interesting here is that it chews way despite how weak the argument is the private education actually caters to these organisations and they're the reason that the school is in trouble right now that we should find out who this lady is you know you can you tell if you are one of

deputy from communities in support of them and this is one of the founders just k.v.i.a. so she has an agenda. to send a letter to the contracts to go to her excuse me mr finkelstein if you want so you know my eyes are fine so you'll please. refrain school when you come to be an american you come to school not really i don't even know if your school is open to everybody and so for everybody the main goal was to have fifty percent add fifty percent on average grow up but these would go into the country if you are over it to try. who oppose our religion christian what would happen would be good i had sky doesn't know how i am i'm sorry this is the kind of stuff that you guys like to spread as not love everybody got to do here got a head scratcher oh it's how i am and am i what i thought you had a that out but i think oh my god you know i should speak out rejoice i doubt it is i say i could jam this now oh why would i see why would i go up and i think this is

the most american institution or the window out of town again how come you're stressed out record low blow on top in a marriage this has no choice trying to sell it as a gift or grace or ok if you trace out on i will say this fashion item or i just remember your political use would be a fine for. us to think it's. ok you don't know he's using what he's doing here you also make fun of jewish friends as that is the true way to go look for the jewish way. i do is i condemn jews who played to the church like. the energy here was intense and the attitudes of the people who are defending the school are aggressive i hope you saw that i hope that other people saw it they are very physically aggressive at one point they were chasing me and all i was doing was taking pictures like you but you can say that again for the camera you called me a thinking that you know me your lawyer like you did they who are known here think

very good big bank here. in order to get in there with me. but. i got bored public a good deal of it would go to get you into a war that. would work for the one you like i will boycott i am a war on the top of my boat you don't. want to go to a good job like. it's a normal public school it's cute little oh energetic eleven and twelve year olds and that's one of the most disturbing things for me is that all these attacks are coming and then you look at our students and their kids here's a school that's meant to be innovative. and you cannot be innovative when you're

under a microscope. the whole idea is to help reform public education and the main thing that the school was about is creating a high quality excellent education this will increase the understanding that our young people have about the world. this is the world struggle in this tiny little ploy. was when you know what look. the left is always looking for a course on sunday they can go to demonstrate against bush monday to go demonstrate for all my days are always it's love for over here for. i've seen specials on t.v. about everyday americans who actually spend their time on the internet browsing sort of islamist chat sites and websites and because they're hunting down terrorists so that's how i see stuff in the major us i feel that they really think they're hunting down terrorists their primary objective was to shut down this

school. and you know in figuring out how to do it they realized that the best way to go about it was to go after its founding leader. it's not just about those who are about this goal but there is a far bigger worry here and that is i do arabs and muslims and the post nine eleven here. is right wing groups fear the shift and the imbalance of the judaeo christian society that this country has been identified their biggest fear is this whole notion of this country becoming you know christian muslim society. what is

wrong with that.

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