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Self-appointed Arab witch-hunter Daniel Pipes organized the right-wing attack machine against Debbie Almontaser, principal of the Kalill Gibran International Academy in New York, which has 60% Arab students. She was ultimately fired by the city based on zero evidence. In a very patriotic test of democracy vs. fascism, democracy has lost. Joseph McCarthy and his blacklisters have won…and have a new set of Pipes. Here’s the piece in the Times last Sunday.