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The Thomas More Law Center, which defends and promotes the religious freedom of Christians as well as time-honored family values and the sanctity of human life, is promising to monitor the new Arabic-themed Khalil Gibran International Academy, a taxpayer-funded school in New York City."The Law Center will continue to use the courts to get information on the school that the city has refused to provide," spokesman Brian Rooney told a gathering of concerned citizens in New York."We want to know what the curriculum is, what text books are being used, who the teachers are, and what groups affiliated with the school like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will have access to the children," he added. "The Law Center will also monitor the school in order to ensure that it comports with state and federal law. "We are concerned that the city is setting up a segregated, separate but equal public school system: one for Islam and another for everyone else," he said.At issue is the academy, which to be opening within days. It is set up in immerse students in Arabic culture, including its language and history.It also will include intensive study of Middle Eastern figures-which Brooklyn teacher and activist Sara Springer said will include the life and teachings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.Text books, lesson plans and teacher materials will be adapted from publications supplied by the Council on Islamic Education, Springer said. CIE's chief consultant is Susan Douglass, a Muslim activist whose husband is on the Saudi government payroll as a teacher at an Islamic academy that has graduated terrorists.Rooney also raised concerns about the agenda of the school, which has three fundamentalist Islamist imams on its board of advisers, as well as other promoters with ties to militant Islamic organizations.CAIR, for example, has been listed by federal prosecutors as an un-indicted co-conspirator in an ongoing case involving the Holy Land Foundation, which is alleged to have provided material support to foreign terrorists, the Law Center said.Rooney expressed concern that basic requests for information about the school have been rejected or ignored."This lack of response to our request for information strongly suggests that the school cannot meet state education standards," he said. "Moreover, it continues to raise suspicions that KGIA is an anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish propaganda center operating as a public school."To read more go to:
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