Texas Terrorism Trial Ties Boston Mosque Leaders to Extremist Network

BOSTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dennis Hale, President of
Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, called today for a public investigation of
the Boston Redevelopment Authority's sale of land to the Islamic Society of
Boston (ISB) for the construction of New England's largest mosque.
Hale noted that officers of the largest Muslim charity in America, The
Holy Land Foundation (HLF), convicted in Texas last week of funding Middle
East terrorism, have ties to the ISB and its close affiliate, the Muslim
American Society. "The convictions in Texas are a victory in the government's
efforts to prevent charities from being used to support terrorism," said Hale.
The Holy Land Foundation and five of its organizers were convicted for sending
more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. "It is
shocking to discover the ties between the HLF and the leadership of the
Islamic Society of Boston," said Hale.
Hale enumerated the ties:
-- "Hossam Al Jabri, President of the Muslim American Society's Boston
branch (MAS Boston), which now controls the ISB Cultural Center, personally
donated money to the HLF while they were sending funds to Hamas," Hale said.
"And the Islamic Society of Boston as an organization sent thousands of
dollars to the HLF as well."
-- "Jamal Badawi, an ISB Trustee, was a frequent speaker at HLF
fundraising events, and was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF
prosecution."
-- "Osama Kandil, the ISB Board Chairman, founded the Muslim Arab Youth
Association (MAYA), which provided venues for HLF fundraising events where
Hamas members made explicit calls to murder Israelis." For its role in Hamas
fundraising, MAYA was also listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF
trial.
"Now," Hale continued, "the mosque, which was built by the Islamic Society
of Boston, has been taken over by the Muslim American Society (MAS). MAS was
founded by top Muslim Brotherhood leaders and states that it is guided by
Muslim Brotherhood ideology. The Brotherhood inspires and provides the
justification for the anti-West Jihad." Hale cited a document from the HLF
investigation, which describes the Muslim Brotherhood's goal in America as a
"Grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying Western Civilization from within."
Hale noted that, "this same document praises the contribution of ISB Trustee
Jamal Badawi to the Muslim Brotherhood's efforts."
"And finally," Hale said, "the Boston Phoenix published last week an
expose, 'Menino's Mosque,' which shows that the BRA did not perform due
diligence when it approved the sale to the ISB of public property at a steep
discount for the construction of a mosque financed mostly by Saudi Arabia.
The Mayor intended to help a group of local African American Muslims build a
house of worship. Instead, he wound up giving the mosque to a group
controlled and financed by the Saudis," Hale said. "The BRA role is further
complicated," according to Hale, "by the role of Muhammad Ali-Salaam, an
official of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), who was also an ISB
member and fundraiser for the mosque. The BRA recently told a judge that their
records on the ISB matter have 'disappeared.' Today we call upon the FinCom's
chairman, Paul Minihane, and its Executive Director, Jeff Conley, to initiate
a long overdue investigation into the conduct of the BRA."
CPT is an interfaith citizens group. It was sued by the ISB for
"defamation" after asking questions about the radical leadership of the ISB in
2004, based on news reports that the founder of the ISB, Abdulrahman Alamoudi,
was serving a 23-year prison term for a terrorist conspiracy and fund-raising
for Al-Qaeda, and that an original ISB Trustee, Yusuf al Qaradawi, was calling
for the wholesale murder of Jews and homosexuals, and is now barred from
entering the U.S. Also sued were the Boston Herald, Fox 25, and over a dozen
individuals and organizations. The ISB dropped its lawsuit in 2007.
SOURCE Citizens for Peace and Tolerance

Dennis Hale of Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, +1-781-799-7245