Why not hire someone fluent in Arabic who is not a practicing Muslim?

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Jewish Woman Taking Over at Arabic-Language School

Submitted by Gretchen, Aug 22, 2007 12:17

If this is to be a public school that simply provides a good way to learn Arabic, it should not matter if the Arabic speaker is a practicing Muslim or not. In fact, to insure that the 1st amendement is being followed, should it not be someone who is specifically not a practicing Muslim? How about a secular Arabic speaker or a Christian Arabic speaker or a Jewish Arabic speaker? Any of these would keep it from becoming a place to indoctrinate the students with Islam. Teaching Arabic is fine, teaching Islam is establishing a religion.

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If this is to be a public school that simply provides a good way to learn Arabic, it should not...	Gretchen	Aug 22, 2007 12:17
What is necessary in this regard is to NOT appease radical Islam and to NOT establish a school to indoctrinate... [MORE]	Amomin, NJ	Sep 28, 2007 04:35
".She has absolutely nothing to apologize for in explaining the meaning of an arabic term." To the above letter-writer, as to... [MORE]	Josh Stern	Aug 16, 2007 13:36
In 2002-2003 I did on on-line survey of "Teachers Applying Whole Language" to test my belief that teaching children to... [MORE]	Bob Rose, MD (retired)	Aug 14, 2007 13:54
The Sun and the Post have followed the far right line of attacking this school and personalizing the attack against... [MORE]	P. Adem Carroll	Aug 14, 2007 09:05