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  • Menino's mosque

    11/19/2008 7:48:54 PM PST · by Cindy · 13 replies · 1,039+ views
    THE PHOENIX.com ^ | November 19, 2008 | DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
    The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building
  • Saudi bank's role in mosque is questioned

    01/10/2007 1:07:07 PM PST · by ninonitti · 5 replies · 431+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | January 10, 2007 | Charles A. Radin and Stephen Kurkjian
    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...