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Wednesday, October 29, 2003
So do we bomb Boston?A new Wahhabi-connected mosque will go up in Roxbury, according to the Boston Herald. For years the "Islamic Society of Boston" has been on Prospect Street in Cambridge, not far from where my friend Marc lives. (He edits for the Herald.) "Many mosques and Islamic institutions in the U.S. are funded by wealthy individuals and foundations in Saudi Arabia," says the report. "Those financiers are almost without exception followers of Wahhabism, a harsh Saudi-based fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, and they make sure the American mosques they bankroll adhere to the sect's anti-Western ideology ... The result, said some Muslim activists, is that many mosques in the U.S. are disconnected from the majority of the American Muslims they supposedly serve.
"'It has created this phenomenon of Muslims without mosques, and I would say the Islamic Society (of Boston) is no exception,' said one Muslim activist who declined to be identified. 'The mosque is being paid for with money from the Middle East and it's connected to a larger agenda.'"
I wonder if Marc knows anything special about this.
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