A BEE IN HER BURQA: MARILYN PENN
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Two years ago, Dhaba Almontaser, aka Debbie, lost her chance at being principal of the Khalil Gibran Middle School after the New York Post revealed her affiliation with a group that had printed Intifada NYC tee shirts. Dhab/Deb first denied that she knew anything about the shirts, then shifted to explaining that intifada was a harmless word that really meant “shaking off.†That’s a curious way to describe the death of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians killed during the First and Second Intifadas. It’s like saying that the American Revolution is about going around in circles, which is actually what Dhab/Deb was doing in her public interviews. She sued the Dept of Education for forcing her to resign and her case was dismissed. Every American knows that losing the first round is just the opening salvo to an unlimited number of litigations, especially when other people are paying your legal fees so that case will be appealed.
In the meantime, Dhab/Deb filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which has ruled in her favor, finding that she was the victim of discrimination on account of her race, religion and national origin. In addition to reinstatement as principal, D/D wants $300,000 in damages (to pay for designer hijabs?), back pay and legal fees. The EEOC is meticulous about upholding the rights of Muslims even at a time when we are witnessing the escalation of domestic terrorism by homegrown American Muslims. The recent case of Major Nidal Hasan was a scorching indictment of what happens when employers (in this instance the army) feel more pressured by political correctness than by facing disturbing facts. Many doctors and army personnel were aware of Hassan’s growing radicalization and Muslim fanaticism but were uneasy about appearing bigoted so they said and did nothing and a nascent mass murderer (and incompetent psychiatrist) kept getting promoted.
In 2002, D/D was a keynote speaker at a 9/11 demonstration organized by CAIR, the War Resisters League, the American Wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim American Society. Here are some of her comments made one year after Muslims killed 3,000 Americans:
“This is my South Asian neighborhood….About 80 people were arrested here just after Sept 11th last year, no one knows why. And they still observe us, a little while ago the FBI infiltrated our community, people speaking Arabic were spying on us. That has led to new detentions.â€
No one knows why? Is it possible that Dhab/Deb missed the cheering Muslims caught on television after the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor? At best, this is disingenuous, particularly for a woman with enough credentials to be the principal of a middle school.
“Earlier you could be arrested for being black and driving a car, now it has become a crime to fly when you are brown….I have realized that our foreign policy is racist; in the war against terror, people of color are the target.â€
Coming from a devotee of the religion that patented hijackers and suicide bombers, calls Jews pigs and considers all non-Muslims infidels, playing the race card is laughable. Muslims have been attacking the west for almost half a century and their societies are the ones where outsiders are dhimmis. Dhab/Deb would have to search forever to find an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission anywhere in the Arab world. Our latest experience with the Christmas panty bomber shows how cavalierly we have resisted profiling brown people even when the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake.
Though Dhab/Deb is not herself a terrorist, she is a person with a clear bias, one that doesn’t belong at the helm of a public school supported by taxpayers of the city most wounded by 9/11. Here are her own words about where she stands on the issues of jihad and foreign policy:
“…I believe that the terrorist attacks can have been triggered by the way the USA breaks its promises with countries around the world, especially in the Middle East and the fact that it has not been a fair mediator with its foreign policy.â€
This is the same U.S. that has given billions of dollars of foreign aid to Arab countries and to Palestinians, the same country that sent its soldiers to die protecting Moslems in the Gulf War and in Kosovo prior to 9/11, and the country that has opened its doors to Muslim immigrants and refugees, including Dhaba Almontaser of Yemen.
The findings of the EEOC are not binding; let’s hope that the Department of Education maintains its original judicious position and keeps known propogandists such as Dhab/Deb away from positions of power in our public schools.
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