american nightmare i have today said made my application to become the principle of the coolio 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 . thank you. from the beginning. my. day. the first amendment to she was open and shut 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 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 booker the b. trail reminiscing and all of the work that i had done to build bridges between the arab and muslim communities of new yo