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Monday, April 10, 2006

ACLU Anti-Religious Hypocrisy

When does the ACLU not mind government's establishment of religion? When that religion is Islam, of course. American Thinker has the story of a $22 million mosque construction project in Boston that will upset anyone but the most strident anti-Christian/Jewish (read: pro-ACLU) folks.

Not content with support pledged by Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, the ISB [Islamic Society of Boston] sought to purchase the city-owned land at a bargain basement price. And did they ever succeed. The City of Boston obliged the group by selling its 1.9 acre site valued at $2,000,000 for $175,000. Boldly compounding the scam, the City agreed to receive further in-kind payment from the ISB in the form of an Islamic Library and courses in Islamic instruction at a state facility, Roxbury Community College; not a $200 crèche or a menorah made of scrap tubing, but a multi-million dollar enterprise based on defrauding taxpayers and establishing ongoing indoctrination courses on the glories of Islam.

The ACLU never ceases to amaze.