[wvns] David Project Wanted to Intimidate Muslim Community

Evidence: Lawsuit aimed at racial intimidation of Muslim community
Karin Friedemann
www.muslimobserver.com

Boston--May 22, 2007--Court documents reveal that on May 28, 2004,
David Project directors and several attorneys were developing
strategies to cast doubt on the Roxbury Mosque's status as a
non-profit organization.

One attorney suggested, "How about simply appealing the building
permit and tying things up?"

The group decided to investigate several plans to halt construction,
but on July 22, 2007 David Project director Anna Kolodner started
panicking.

"The steel is going up on the Mosque," she wrote to the group. "We
need to have a plaintiff. This is a priority. Please contact any
individuals that would consider this role and let us know."

Using the lawsuit, Kolodner demanded records from the Boston
Redevelopment Authority to use for negative publicity.

Realizing that few Americans could care less where the Islamic Society
of Boston obtained their mortgage, real estate developer Steve Cohen
discussed creating suspicion by using vague language to question the
mosque's non-criminal foreign "connections."

"However, the First Amendment will bar any governmental action against
the mosque based on these connections - not in the absence of
incitement that might lead to `imminent action.' So all we are left
with is a public relations campaign."

This admission betrays a premeditated decision to incite hate by using
"terrorist" as an ethnic slur to manipulate public sentiment, while
their plaintiff sued the city for selling to Muslims.

"The suit itself will have to stick to the narrow constitutional
issues, which have nothing to do with the terrorist connections,"
Cohen continued. "However, the pr campaign surrounding the suit can
strike a different chord: i.e. that the city of Boston should not be
subsidizing a mosque or any organization with terrorist connections."

"We will be much more effective if we let others ask this question
than if we do so ourselves," Cohen admitted, "The suit itself will
have to stick to the narrow constitutional issues, which have nothing
to do with the terrorist connections."

On September 2, 2004, Anna Kolodner wrote, "Filing the lawsuit will
serve to trip the switch on the larger agenda of exposing the radical
fundamentalist underpinnings of the Mosque and its leaders…We need to
develop a media campaign and identify who will be the public
spokesperson for the group…We need an expert in power point to develop
a presentation that can be used with the media, politicians, and
community groups."

That power point expert would turn out to be the notorious Robert Spencer.

Karin Friedemann is editor of World View News Service, focusing on the
Islamic world.

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