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Word has come this week that the founding principal of the city’s Arabic-language school is looking to get her job back, and she’s prepared to sue the city of New York to get it. Dhabah Almontaser, who resigned the Arab language and culture school in August, claims that the Department of Education and Mayor Bloomberg violated her constitutional rights under the First Amendment when they encouraged her to leave her post at the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn. Ms. Almontaser’s argument seems to be that she was pushed out after defending t-shirts promoting an “intifada” in New York City as “an opportunity for girls to express that they are part of New York City society… and shaking off oppression.” We’re unimpressed with Ms. Almontaser’s First Amendment claim; there are many things a principal could say that would warrant the loss of a job and putting the gloss on the Intifada would certainly be one of them.
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