but then I thought I'd open myself open to the charge of creepiness and post it.  

I was putting myself in the shoes of the Muslim community. That a Jewish mayor caved to the pressures of a primarily Jewish-led campaign to oust this woman--and then put a Jewish principal in charge (if he were an Arabic speaker there might have been a case for it), just seems--bizarre. Either blindly politically correct ("We don't ever take ethnicity into account"--cute, especially if you read the entire article) or just a tad insensitive. They seem to be just daring the Arab/Muslim community to make a stink, or fomenting resentment.

I may be in the wrong shoes. Maybe NY Arabs/Muslims are all purer than I. It just struck me as slightly provocative to do that.

What do you think?