DAR AL HARB-U.S.A.-MASSACHUSETTS: BOSTON MOSQUE OBTAINS ISLAMIC BANK (OWNERS: SAUDI ARABIA, LIBYAR, IRAN & EGYPT) FINANCING

Saudi bank's role in mosque is questioned
By Charles A. Radin and Stephen Kurkjian,
Globe Staff January 10, 2007

The Islamic Society of Boston's effort to build the region's largest mosque has received at least $1 million in financing from a Saudi Arabia-based bank dominated by governments that critics of the mosque project say support Islamic extremism.

The Islamic society acknowledged yesterday receiving a $1 million loan from the Islamic Development Bank in late 2005 -- principal owners of which are Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, and Egypt -- after opponents of the mosque project provided the Globe with documents showing that the bank paid about $500,000 in mosque construction bills late in 2005.

Work on the mosque, which is being built at Roxbury Crossing, ground to a halt last autumn due to lack of funds. But work restarted this week using the unexpended portion of the loan, $1 million in donations raised locally during last year's Ramadan holiday, and $1,352,500 from the sale of Islamic society property in Cambridge, society spokeswoman Jessica Masse said.

She said that the loan is the first money for the project obtained from the financial institutions of Middle Eastern governments.

Saudi, Libyan, and Iranian government funding for Islamic fundamentalist organizations have been criticized by the US State Department and human rights organizations for contributing to the rise of terrorists who use Islam to justify their actions. The bank has not been targeted separately for such criticism. Attempts to reach bank officials at its headquarters in Jedda were unsuccessful yesterday.

Backers of the mosque say the bank is a legitimate financial institution that supports important projects in the Islamic world.

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So is this the moslem way of saying that the mosque being built at Roxbury Crossing, in Boston is:

A) The piece of real estate that the mosque is being built on is part of Dar al Islam?!?

B) The Boston city limits are part of Dar al Islam?!?

C) The Region is part of Dar al Islam?!?

D) The entire United States of America is part of Dar al Islam?!?

All of the above answers bode ill for this country...

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