Stop the Madrassa links to the latest NY Sun editorial on the proposed “Arabic language” school in Brooklyn, as yet another organization speaks out against the proposed school and its questionable religious advisory board:

If one thought the chorus of concern over the proposed Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn couldn’t grow any broader or any louder, it has just done so. The Department of Education’s Arabic-themed school has now drawn the attention of a group founded to preserve the memory of Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-American author and poet whose name the school bears. The Friends of Gibran Council stated in a press release yesterday that, based upon available information to date, the proposed school “would not honor the legacy of a great poet, an artist who achieved greatness in the US as an emigrant fleeing Lebanon where his community has been suffering persecution in their ancestral home in Lebanon at the hands of religious powers.” The release further points out that Gibran’s ancestry was Lebanese, Christian, and Maronite, making the act of attaching his name to a school dedicated to Arab language and culture a bit suspect.

Atlas has more on the Friends of Gibran Council:

Gibran was a believer in the universality of human rights and the dignity of the individual. Therefore, the board of trustees of the KGIA should reflect Gibran’s values and ideals. Appointing radicals and Imams who have been associated with extremist and Jihadist groups is an affront to these ideals.

As Atlas says:

Don’t this beat all? THE SCHOOL MUST NOT OPEN. Why won’t we fight for what we believe? Islam wins by default.  The use of Lebanese-American author poet Khalil Gibran is taqiya (Koranic instruction to deceive  in order to advance Islam) in its most perfect and vile form.