Academy called potential radical Islam training ground

One of New York City’s newest public schools is named for a Lebanese poet who promoted peace and published his most famous work while living in the city, but there has been little peace for the Khalil Gibran International Academy. With a little more than a week remaining until the academic year starts, the school—announced in February as New York City’s first school to offer instruction in Arabic and on Arab culture—already has had to move once and has its second principal, both because of protests. Critics have attacked the school, named for the Lebanese Christian poet Khalil Gibran, as a potential radical Islam training ground. Supporters have been taken aback by the controversy. Read about it at the online news website News24.com.