Tsarnaevs’ Cambridge Mosque, And The Saudis Who Funded It

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The mosque in Cambridge on Prospect Street, just across from the first Bread and Circus (now folded into Whole Foods), is part of the larger Islamic Society of Boston. The names of the hitherto-secret funders are now known, and many of them turn out to be rich Saudis. That support, and the selling of land to the Islamic Society of Boston at 10% of its value, through the machbinations of a Muslim who worked for the city government (he’s now gone, but the deal he masterminded has not been undone), explain how these mosques are built and the clerics paid. Similar investigations ought to be undertaken all over the country. It will become clear just how few of these structures are paid for by those who attend them– it’s foreign, chiefly Saudi and other Gulf money. And while Islam, the texts of Islam, are themselves dangerous, the ferocity with which certain parts of them are emphasized may depend partly on who has been paying the bills.