there were words that were offensive to this time period should those be included in our literature and reflects what we're about today. yes who should be governing what's offensive to people and what's not there should be no governing and individual should know if they respect themselves respect their parents they would know what's right and wrong but don't you think people are going to have different points of view on what's offensive and what's not yes but that's why i just bring it down to if you do respect yourself in respect of the people it all comes out in the end you think people will naturally be an offensive to each other. will they necessarily know should they yes sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm so no name has ever been offensive to you because you know what you have to be emotionally disturbed to have any attention and there's some who are more deeper than me. so it's ok for anyone to call anyone anything. it depends on how you say it and it depends on in the context that you

use the word whether or not you believe the n word should be taken out of huckleberry finn the bottom line is we should consider how. and boring the world would be if we take political correctness five. a bit later this hour we investigate the reaction to the opening of the first arabic language public school in the us it's coming up tonight here on the r t news channel from moscow.

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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 we shouldn't we shouldn't miss. and so when people made statements that were truly discriminatory of course of pain me and said me. certain feel mongering groups the play of the disco would be a religious school which is a public school in america it could never be and it will not be easy situations with the strace told so in a folder and racist these outlets and groups should be ashamed of themselves we have the word in your dish a shocking. i believe there is an apology owed to debbie on that says 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 is the founder of or is in fact the one just. after 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 i have. made it i support this school because this school is a key. to understanding the raid into the foot tapestry which makes up this great

city and even though the world has many conflicts and i'm assigned it i'm pro israel let me be clear about it. those are my commitments lifelong commitment but if the solution to the problem is to arise i believe will arise from new york if the solution to those issues that destroy the world and peoples that should fight then are much more in common then then then distinctions then i believe that the right the solicits will come from schools like this one is introduced to homo. you know. what is being rather like a foreign court would have to call out on elected officials to act as leaders not to pander to racism or bigotry but to stand by their. new york city needs to be careful not to mount the conservative element of surprise to many children as their spirit held 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 over thirty days is the arabic language such a threat. we found ourselves in the crossfire of a media war against dilute your brand academy because we produced t. shirts a few years ago that were the slogan in the fight n.y.c. . my name is money. i'm founding director of arab women active in the arts and media. the 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 we start from their backyards. the

mission of a way is to. basically encourage 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 the minute i stuck inside the bus some old guy was sitting on his chair and he started questioning me and telling me all your tears you want to get raped go back to your country and he just comes out in no way says go back to your country you sound a lot of. 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 and my be my religion what does that have to be then. you know they are. unsure. 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 formed the coalition communities in support of the going into 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 an illegal apartheid occupation 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 is that the girls have which is silence. and it really represented how drastically our were king after the breaking of the news about our intifada t. shirts on film disrespected and discriminated against. and then call the terrorist because that's a full state. but he is good why the night and if it did the media know that thank

you so much fun just this he should have the word intifada written on them so what it all comes down to is who gets to define the father provocative where. do we have a right to use it yes. you know do i have regrets. 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 doggy coats and the random is things that'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. should 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 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 take arabic every day and. you know a a ticket to egypt. is there also a culture clash of certain arabic. it's a story. we've frank's women learning about like ancient rome greece a lot of stuff none of the other classes are based on anything we learn in plants.

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 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 signal my application to be climbed the principle of the clearly gibran international academy right. i have also asked my lawyer to begin preparing

a lawsuit against the department of education for violating my constitutional right . to be killing. my. 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 by supporters of israel to anything that smacks of criticism of israel. i remember that day walking into the courtroom. and really. not having any name 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 marable or maybe trail reminiscing on 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 no 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 want to tell me i thought that everybody get that we lost this i just found it stunning i thought of the stunning decision was i was told i think you need to have a outer. ring abbie back afterwards we just walk over. to my lawyers office and we just sat there and we consult on next steps and i made it lay my liar's real life we're going to appeal this we're not letting this.

picture show anything you need and in the interview that was incorrect. i wanted to speak to you to talk to the exterior and. then when you took it up when you have to see it when you look it up you felt it was we don't interrupt you when you looked up you found her oh oh. interpretation of it was precisely correct. to should say that you're entering. that one 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 need to. remember congress will just leave usenet for the response to her it's people believe 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's a that's a very unattractive position for a city to take i felt that that day and 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 would be lifo you see keep this but 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 consumers first entered the public school holly 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 some we're here this morning because we are concerned about the students being educated at. international academy what are you going to be hot at what we are afraid might be told 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 skews way despite how weak the argument is that 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 going to

know directly from companies in support of them and this is one of the founders just cagey oh yeah so she has an agenda. to send a lot of you know contracts to go to her excuse me mr finkelstein if you want so they might start a fire so you would please. refrain school 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 it's ok to everybody the main goal was to have fifty percent add two percent on average grow up and we would go out to the country if you're over it to try it. who oppose our litter of christian what would happen if we could i have sky doesn't hope i am . the kind of stuff that you guys like to spread as not love everybody got to do here got a head start i wouldn't tell you i am an arab i would i thought you had a that now but i think i don't know that you speak out rejoice i doubt it there is one say i could get this now 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 it's rest out the door well go on that in a marriage i know this has no use trying to sell it as a gift or the grace to. trace out and i will say this fashion i think remember your political use with this line 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 troop way to go look for the jewish. i do is i condemn jews who played to the tree of life with. the energy here was intense and the attitudes of the people who are defending the school are aggressive i hope that 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 play that again for the camera you called me over thinking that you know me your lawyer like

you did they who are more here think very good big thank you. or to get in there with me. but. i've done more for public good that beloved would go to get you into a war or to. go one way or the one you like they will boycott i'm a war going to go by boat i don't. want to go to a good job like. it's a normal public school it's cute little 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 about the world. this is the world struggle in this tiny little place. was in you know what look. the left is always looking for a course on sunday they can go to demonstrate against bush one day to go demonstrate for all my days are always it's love forever therefore. 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 kids are 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 realize that the best way to go about it was to go after its founding leader. it's nice and about me are about it all that there is a far bigger worry here and that is i did arabs and muslims in the post nine eleven era as right wing groups fear the yes and the imbalance a bit to deal christians and society that this country has been identified as their biggest fear is this whole notion of this country becoming x.

you don't christians muslims society. what is wrong with that.

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