Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vindicated Debbie Almontaser, the Muslim teacher who helped found Brooklyn’s Khalil Gibran International Academy.

The Commission said that the city Education Department discriminated against the former principal, when they forced her to resign, a federal commission ruled this week.

“DOE succumbed to the very bias that creation of the school was intended to dispel,” the commission wrote this week, finding Almontaser faced discrimination on “the basis of her race, religion, and national origin.”

No comment as yet from Almontaser but she is still seeking to return to the job of leading Khalil Gibran. Her lawyer, Alan Levine, said he was “gratified.” “Debbie Almontaser was victimized twice, first when she was subjected to an ugly smear campaign orchestrated by anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigots, and second when the DOE capitulated to their bigotry,” he told the NY Daily News (who reported this story).