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Stop the NYC Madrassa
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Submitted by Barbara (United States), Aug 20, 2007 at 13:06

It is interesting to note that in spite of the barrage of leters, emails and phone calls to politiians and the Board of Ed; only now that Ms. Debbie resigned has the Mayor and Joel Klein commented on this resignation.

The fact that everyone who is against the opening of this school have been writing, calling, emailing all of their political reps and everyone at the Board of Ed from Joel Klein down and NOT ONE REPLY HAS BEEN HAD,

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City of Immigrants [105 words]ElyseMay 15, 2008 00:31
Abou this whole madrassa talk [210 words]MwesigwaMay 14, 2008 06:21
↔ Oh, that pesky US Constitution [452 words]JeffJun 20, 2008 18:55
That is how Europe had lost their culture. [113 words]ArmageddonSep 4, 2007 01:55
Police are not allowed by Allah to search Mosques , Madrassas and Muslim Locality for Islamic Terrorists !! [257 words]RitaAug 31, 2007 16:23
↔ Be clear in your thoughts [100 words]NishiMay 1, 2008 12:07
where will it stop [31 words]David ShovanAug 30, 2007 00:43
Even President Bush is praising Islamic Centers and Madrassas [192 words]Islamic VoiceAug 25, 2007 11:21
↔ Islamic Voice's hypocrisy!!! [273 words]JaladhiAug 27, 2007 10:20
↔ Isn't it also an opportunity for Muslims? [119 words]JeffAug 28, 2007 20:54
↔ We All Need the Truth [211 words]CheyJul 12, 2008 00:33
↔ The Differences [77 words]CheyJul 12, 2008 01:00
A Nursery for Terrorists [167 words]Arlinda DeAngelisAug 24, 2007 13:09
Islamic laws of great value [169 words]InfidelAug 20, 2007 21:33
What worries me... [129 words]HomefrontAug 20, 2007 19:37
↔ Love that moniker! [15 words]LafnAug 21, 2007 20:36
Continue your good efforts Dan [101 words]Mike KurtzigAug 20, 2007 15:50
Khalil Gibran School A Doomed Concept [152 words]SheenaAug 20, 2007 13:37
Stop the NYC Madrassa [118 words]BarbaraAug 20, 2007 13:11
⇒ Stop the NYC Madrassa [80 words]BarbaraAug 20, 2007 13:06
↔ Timely comment! [493 words]Nick4693Aug 23, 2007 19:09
↔ Who owns Islam... [230 words]donvanSep 5, 2007 16:39
religion and academia never served the same purpose [120 words]kantipalaAug 20, 2007 04:21
Nice horse,muslims!?! [191 words]Jorge CordovaAug 19, 2007 15:42
↔ Some one should come to stop these terrorist barracks [40 words]chinnaSep 18, 2007 13:20
On intifada [353 words]Archimedes2Aug 18, 2007 22:04
↔ And what is wrong with that... [601 words]AvengerAug 20, 2007 23:02
↔ Simple answer [829 words]Archimedes2Aug 22, 2007 03:49
↔ Avenger's Smoke and Mirror Message [365 words]Mel LarawayAug 22, 2007 14:12
solution to islamic rising [97 words]carlton craverAug 18, 2007 17:04
Arabist & Islamist? [115 words]AnonAug 17, 2007 23:12
↔ Teach Islam and Arabic in mosques and not in public schools on taxpayer's money!!! [224 words]JaladhiAug 22, 2007 10:05
The future of freedom in the USA [88 words]HarrakAug 17, 2007 14:24
↔ the menonites teach the students that the earth is flat? Really? [56 words]dhimmi no moreAug 18, 2007 08:19
↔ So go.. [67 words]donvanAug 20, 2007 09:53
↔ The Joke of the Constitutional system in the United States [254 words]HarrakAug 22, 2007 00:38
↔ The Earth is flat? [11 words]lafnAug 22, 2007 17:27
↔ Our Constitution [314 words]LafnAug 22, 2007 17:41
↔ I `ve got dreams..dream to remember [81 words]HarrakAug 24, 2007 01:47
↔ ....even more than that I heard. [51 words]HarrakAug 24, 2007 01:57
↔ Flat Earth [61 words]LafNAug 24, 2007 17:07
↔ Confused.... [130 words]donvanSep 6, 2007 11:36
article incomplete
[w/response] [65 words]		mayaAug 17, 2007 11:30
Those Poor Oppressed New York Women. [189 words]maura collinsAug 17, 2007 10:10
Origins [187 words]David W. LincolnAug 16, 2007 19:42
There are Better Ways to Teach Arabic to Americans [96 words]AlexAug 16, 2007 16:27
we will kickout all missionaries ......school [84 words]syed mohammad aliAug 16, 2007 13:28
↔ what missionaries? [55 words]obilicAug 16, 2007 21:38
↔ Stand-up comic [287 words]Nick4693Aug 16, 2007 21:45
↔ Spoken like a true man of the caliphate, Syed [287 words]JeffAug 17, 2007 22:47
↔ Expell Missionaries.... Har!! [112 words]Another InfidelAug 18, 2007 02:33
↔ nobody is actually stopping madrasa [82 words]bosAug 18, 2007 07:20
↔ Our dear Syed and Islamic meltdwon [130 words]dhimmi no moreAug 18, 2007 08:29
↔ i am not the one who loves saudi royal family [169 words]syed mohammad aliAug 19, 2007 04:17
↔ obilic keep dreaming [35 words]syed mohammad aliAug 19, 2007 04:25
↔ You got it right - Nick4693 [154 words]JaladhiAug 19, 2007 13:57
↔ Time for us too to kick you out of India [21 words]anilAug 19, 2007 14:09
↔ Stop the NYS Madrassa: A Response to syed mohammad ali [321 words]Jaisingh ThakurAug 20, 2007 05:02
↔ Abiguity rules! [450 words]Nick4693Aug 20, 2007 22:55
↔ i am not a paki [67 words]syed mohammad aliAug 21, 2007 12:35
↔ i am not having dual citizenship [104 words]syed mohammad aliAug 21, 2007 12:47
↔ yes there was 100000 jews in iran, 75000 settled in israel and other places [140 words]syed mohammad aliAug 21, 2007 13:02
↔ who stopping you to kick out muslims from india [31 words]syed mohammad aliAug 22, 2007 12:55
↔ Our dear Syed and Muslim missionaries aka tablighees [136 words]dhimmi no moreAug 22, 2007 12:58
↔ i am not paki [88 words]syed mohammad aliAug 22, 2007 13:02
↔ sure i dont want to take order from self oppointed clerics [516 words]syed mohammad aliAug 22, 2007 13:29
↔ Mohammed Ali and his closed mind [527 words]Nick4693Aug 22, 2007 22:30
↔ you are talking like christian extremist [241 words]syed mohammad aliAug 24, 2007 12:44
↔ Me? A christian extremist? [480 words]Nick4693Aug 24, 2007 21:47
↔ Apologist ! [149 words]Another InfidelAug 25, 2007 04:02
↔ Enough of Tolerance and Political Correctness. [127 words]ColonelAug 25, 2007 11:43
↔ sure i am talking about social justice [292 words]syed mohammad aliAug 26, 2007 12:57
↔ sure mr colonel political correctness [158 words]syed mohammad aliAug 26, 2007 13:06
↔ another infidel [148 words]syed mohammad aliAug 26, 2007 13:17
↔ Muslim blindness [147 words]VijayAug 26, 2007 15:54
↔ Brick wall! [182 words]Nick4693Aug 27, 2007 05:49
↔ syed mohammad ali [496 words]shaynaAug 27, 2007 09:00
↔ mr vijay that is a myth [342 words]syed mohammad aliAug 27, 2007 12:42
↔ immoral [84 words]syed mohammad aliAug 28, 2007 04:47
↔ i am not forcing islam on any one [631 words]syed mohammad aliAug 28, 2007 12:55
↔ response to said mohammed [111 words]gary fouseAug 28, 2007 15:20
↔ sure i want caliph in islamic world [247 words]syed mohammad aliAug 29, 2007 12:40
↔ reply to syed mohammad ali, [543 words]shaynaAug 29, 2007 12:51
↔ jesus approved the law of old testament [571 words]syed mohammmad aliAug 30, 2007 13:34
↔ Our dear Syed says that muslims must leave Amercia and go where? To Pakiland? [161 words]dhimmi no moreSep 1, 2007 18:00
↔ But his name was Qutham and his kunya was abul Qasim [40 words]dhimmi no moreSep 1, 2007 18:08
↔ 'Ai'sha and Muhammad! [69 words]dhimmi no moreSep 1, 2007 18:12
↔ the 6 yr old story again [216 words]razinSep 4, 2007 14:47
↔ Yes Raxin, I am willing to say it, now will you do the same about mohammed? [50 words]KlewSep 4, 2007 15:59
↔ Our dear Razin and our dear 3A'isha and Abul Qasim and Solomon and other sordid matters [97 words]dhimmi no moreSep 4, 2007 18:02
↔ aiesha was not 9 years old here is the contradiction [313 words]syed mohammad aliSep 5, 2007 14:08
↔ prophet name is Mohammad peace be upon is ahmad as well [21 words]syed mohammad aliSep 5, 2007 14:10
↔ dhimmi who cares what you say [120 words]syed mohammad aliSep 5, 2007 14:15
↔ You must pardon me but, wrong [387 words]dhimmi no moreSep 7, 2007 06:47
↔ what scholars argue is nothing important [55 words]syed mohammad aliSep 9, 2007 13:26
↔ Our dear 'A'isha and her age and bogus Muslim history [34 words]dhimmi no moreSep 10, 2007 17:30
↔ no one is converting to islam from other religion [54 words]anilSep 18, 2007 13:38
↔ jesus approved the law of old testament? [29 words]peterpedantNov 7, 2009 06:40
A Word To The Wise [215 words]Abu NuwasAug 16, 2007 08:34
↔ Hi Abu Nawas [87 words]dhimmi no moreAug 16, 2007 19:11
↔ To dhimmi [306 words]SimonAug 18, 2007 01:06
↔ To dhimmi one example of this guy [180 words]SimonAug 18, 2007 01:24
↔ Hi Dhimmi No More [383 words]Abu NuwasAug 18, 2007 13:54
↔ Hi Simon [18 words]dhimmi no moreAug 21, 2007 06:39
↔ Hi Simon [445 words]dhimmi no moreAug 21, 2007 07:41
Schizophrenia [47 words]robert aAug 16, 2007 05:54
NYC MADRASSA [46 words]DAVID R. GROESBECKAug 16, 2007 03:18
religious accommodation-or surrender? [783 words]gary fouseAug 16, 2007 02:28
↔ One thing you might be missing... [100 words]HomefrontAug 20, 2007 19:53
↔ Stop the NY Madrasas [77 words]gary fouseAug 21, 2007 22:54
↔ More common sense, please! [139 words]Nick4693Aug 26, 2007 00:36
↔ response to nick 4693 [25 words]gary fouseAug 26, 2007 15:38
will a new yorker accept this [158 words]Donald OAug 15, 2007 22:17
Stop Islamic iran funded madressahs [23 words]MASSOODAug 15, 2007 21:44
↔ Stop Islamic Saudi Arabia funded presidents [102 words]HarrakAug 18, 2007 21:56
We are not here in the third world. [50 words]f.shaAug 15, 2007 21:21
Will we ever get the picture? [263 words]Nick4693Aug 15, 2007 20:54
Cookoo !!! [203 words]dfwhite19438Aug 15, 2007 20:21
↔ Say What? [40 words]BarbaraAug 16, 2007 20:05
↔ Another example !!! [65 words]dfwhite19438Aug 17, 2007 19:04
↔ Stop the Insanity [75 words]Barbara FreemanAug 20, 2007 18:34
Citizenship for Islamists [71 words]LafnAug 15, 2007 19:16
↔ Right on! [10 words]Nick4693Aug 21, 2007 06:35
re the KGIA taxpayer funded Madrassa Schooling [212 words]Jascha KesslerAug 15, 2007 18:58
There is already another madrassa in NYC
[w/response] [19 words]		dhimmi no moreAug 15, 2007 18:40
↔ dhimmi: I see your frustration with Tabligees [16 words]Janu JannaAug 18, 2007 01:38
↔ Dr Pipes between his big reaction on tax funded Madrassas and his silence on privatly funded Madrassas
[w/response] [111 words]		HarrakAug 19, 2007 12:39
↔ For our dear Janu and his poor logic [5 words]dhimmi no moreAug 21, 2007 06:53
↔ Our dear Janu Janna is opening what? [85 words]dhimmi no moreAug 22, 2007 13:05
STOP THE NYC MADRASSA NOW [131 words]TIRDAD GHARIBAug 15, 2007 18:25
Tolerance For Traitors? [287 words]Bryan TaplitsAug 15, 2007 16:20
↔ Are we overreacting or misunderstanding the purpose of the school? [170 words]SophiaAug 15, 2007 19:31
↔ We know exactly what Muslims have in their mind for opening this madrassa in NYC - victim of 9/11 atrocity!!! [190 words]JaladhiAug 17, 2007 14:51
Teaching Beliefs: What is a Belief Worth? [891 words]M. ToveyAug 15, 2007 16:15
↔ Where does Tovey go wrong? [116 words]Jess WilliamsAug 16, 2007 11:32
↔ Is Belief in the Truth Wrong? [423 words]M. ToveyAug 17, 2007 02:07
↔ Islam is not a "peaceful religion" [80 words]Barbara FreemanAug 20, 2007 18:51
GOOD NEWS [33 words]William WheelerAug 15, 2007 15:30
down the road [54 words]obilicAug 15, 2007 15:22
↔ Amsterdam Bishop [24 words]LafnAug 15, 2007 19:23
Brooklyn Midrasas [86 words]Herbert BurackAug 15, 2007 15:13
Close this Madrassa before opening it!!! [171 words]JaladhiAug 15, 2007 15:08
↔ save the world [57 words]steve blackmoreAug 15, 2007 17:53
What Muslims Don't Get [153 words]MarciAug 15, 2007 14:31
↔ What Muslims Don't Get [182 words]sheik yer'mamiAug 16, 2007 12:57
↔ Stop the NYS Madrassa: A Response to sheik yer'mami [290 words]Jaisingh ThakurAug 20, 2007 05:30
Joel Klein is going to get 500 emails from our Masjid in support of KGIA in one day. [46 words]Jim KnowlsAug 15, 2007 13:40
My comments as sent to Chancellor Klein [201 words]RickAug 15, 2007 13:29
↔ Ask !! [61 words]Philip SaenzAug 15, 2007 22:07
↔ GOOD!! AND BAD!!! [112 words]ahmadzafireAug 28, 2007 20:20

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