I don’t care if even the Grand Rabbi of Jerusalem became the principal of the Khalil Gibran school (“Islam Prof Is ‘Zion’-Hearted,” Aug. 15).

Yeshivas are paid for by Jews, Catholic schools by Catholics and so on.

If it’s a good idea, let the parents of the Gibran school’s students ante up.

It’s not the curriculum, it’s the unfairness, with a splash of naiveté.

Ed Krauss

Scarsdale

Khalil Gibran International Academy must be stopped, and the new Jewish token principal, Danielle Salzberg, must step down.

Public schools should focus on assimilating our diverse ethnic pop ulation and specialize in American culture and history.

Salzberg received her masters in education from Columbia University Teachers College, the bastion of Marxist principles and teaching for social justice.

But whose social justice will be taught?

Establishing a school that focuses exclusively on Arab language and culture risks the peril of Islamic social justice spreading poison gradually into the body politic.

Phil Orenstein

Queens Village

Opening an Arabic language academy was a bad idea. Supporting an “Intifada NYC” T-shirt was a bad idea, and appointing a Jewish woman to succeed the ousted Arabic principal is an equally bad idea – and a provocation.

It tells the city’s Arab and Muslim residents that Jews think they can run an Arab institution better than they can.

That kind of effrontery sparked the latest Intifada in 2000, when Gen. Ariel Sharon, accompanied by 1,000 police, went to the Muslim holy site of Haram al-Sharif to disrupt Muslim prayer services.

It is better to just say “no” to a divisive institution. Why needlessly insult others?

Patrick Cloutier

Hartford, Conn.