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Saturday, July 8, 2006

Miss Kelly has a look at the make-up of the interfaith mediating panel that's looking into and hoping to resolve some of the lawsuits surrounding the embattled Islamic Society of Boston and their Boston Mosque project: More on ISB and Interfaith Mediation

...Sorry, the ICPL strikes me as a well-intentioned but very leftist organization. Who decided that they should act as mediators here? Likely the ISB proposed the idea, and The David Project was afraid to politely decline, as they would have looked bad or uncooperative. But now on top of the ongoing legal proceedings, the defendants also have to divert time and energy to a 40-member panel whose sympathies appear to lie a lot more with one side than the other. I think the mediation can only benefit the ISB, who gets to appear magnimonious (after filing five or six baseless lawsuits). As always, stay tuned.

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I think there's also an element of "When you have a hammer..." here. This group wants to treat the issue solely as a Jewish versus Muslim misunderstanding, because that's what they're geared up to do. They have no expertise or power to investigate the sleazy real estate deal angle, for example. (Which, of course, isn't something you "mediate" anyway.)

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