Pretty decent coverage of the continuing controversy of the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) Roxbury mosque on NECN this evening (sorry, you have to sit through the ad....).
The ISB (actually the Muslim American Society of Boston) held their opening ceremony today, and there was a well-mannered group of protestors across the street bearing signs that read "Prayer Yes! Extremism No!" Sweet! It's not the mosque anyone is against, it's the leadership with its demonstrated ties to radicalism. The building is handsome, I'm sure local Muslims are thrilled to have this center. But all the controversy about the leadership of the ISB/MAS that has plagued this project from the beginning is still with us.
Let's not forget who we're dealing with here. To refresh your memory on the legal jihad waged by the ISB, please read The Silencing by Solomonia. To refresh your memory on the improper (if not illegal, given the conflict of interest issue) real estate transaction between the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and the ISB, please read Menino's Mosque by David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix.
The outrage that's lacking in this is the corrupt method by which the Center obtained the property.
The outrage that's lacking is the lack of knowledge about the slave trade that is represented in Islam. (There's no monument to Charles Quantrill in Roxbury.)
Considering the numbers that do not justify this edifice - noting that many came from hundreds of miles away, and from other "cultural centers" just to fill space - this should be looked at as what Walid Phares calls the "pregnancy period" of political power, whereby places are prepared for future Islamic citadels.
The hypocrisy of Duval Patrick, not appearing for the sake of attending a military funeral and citing Obama's Edward Said pap from Cairo is even more outrageous.
Obama, Patrick and most liberals have a visceral hatred of the military.
None so blind as those who 'choose' not to see, nor deaf as those who block their ears.
For those of us who believe in prayer, we may find that it is all we have left.
Posted by: Shawmut | June 27, 2009 at 12:29 PM
The over-sized mosque is no doubt in anticipation of lots of converts. Trustee Walid Fitaihi said as much a month after Sept 11, 2001, noting that Boston was ripe for conversions to Islam.
Posted by: miss kelly | July 02, 2009 at 11:14 PM