Middle East studies in the News

Group Demands Apology from Almontaser [on Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser, Khalil Gibran International Academy]

The New York Sun
November 28, 2007

http://www.nysun.com/article/67083

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4542

An advocacy group is demanding an apology from the former principal of a Brooklyn school with an Arabic-language theme. The Stop the Madrassa Community Coalition, which has lobbied for the Bloomberg administration to shut down the Khalil Gibran International Academy and requested the firing of its founding principal, Dhabah Almontaser, is asking Ms. Almontaser to apologize for accusing the group of "stalking" her and making "vicious anti-Arab and anti-Muslim comments."

Writing to her lawyer, Alan Levine, in a letter sent Monday, an attorney for Stop the Madrassa, David Yerushalmi, demanded Ms. Almontaser publicly rescind her comments and issue an apology to the group.

Mr. Yerushalmi also picked out Ms. Almontaser's public attack on a supporter of the group, the historian Daniel Pipes, whose columns run in this newspaper. The letter calls Ms. Almontaser's contention that Mr. Pipes "has made his career fostering hatred of Arabs and Muslims" unfounded.

Mr. Levine could not be reached for comment yesterday.

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