CHARLES RADIN and The Boston Globe did a disservice to readers by their incomplete reporting of the contents of the Islamic Society of Boston's recent letter to the David Project ("Tension high amid Roxbury mosque plan," City & Region, Dec. 17).

The letter included a full response to the David Project's disingenuous questions about alleged "trips" that Boston Redevelopment Authority employee Mohammad Ali-Salaam made to the Middle East, and described the prior approval sought and obtained from BRA officials for the one and only trip that took place. The letter said that no expenses, except one airfare, were paid or reimbursed by the ISB. That fact was known by the David Project long before it made its latest public charges against the ISB ("BRA official's travels to Middle East raise accounting questions," City & Region, Dec. 7).

The real story here remains the relentless efforts of the David Project to stop the building of a mosque and center for interfaith dialogue in Roxbury . The ISB's letter invited the David Project to participate in dialogue to "begin a discussion toward healing the divisions between our communities" and to help lessen tensions between area Muslims and Jews. In response, the David Project has once again elected to practice only hatred toward area Muslims by rejecting dialogue. This was the real story. It remains the real story. Mr. Radin and the Globe missed it.

JESSICA MASSE
Interfaith coordinator
Islamic Society of Boston
Cambridge

YOU NOTE that the chairman of the Islamic Society of Boston has accused those who have raised still-unanswered questions about the ISB's leadership, funding, and teachings of "hate" ("Tension high amid Roxbury mosque plan," City & Region, Dec. 17). The ISB has actually sued an Islamic cleric, a Christian political science professor, and the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors, all of whom had the courage to ask questions of the ISB. Sadly, it continues to evade these questions.

Neither the David Project nor anyone else is concerned about a mosque being built in Boston, a diverse city that has welcomed people of all backgrounds from around the world and must continue to do so. There are specific concerns, however, with the leadership and funding of the ISB, and with the somewhat bizarre circumstances under which public land was transferred to the ISB at a 91 percent discount, in a transaction overseen by a BRA official whose way was paid by the ISB to raise funds for it in the Middle East at the same time that he was supposedly negotiating the deal on behalf of the public.

People of all religions will continue to ask the questions about this matter that need to be asked. The ISB may not like it, but the better course for our community is for the Society to answer the questions rather than seek to dodge them by making false accusations of "hate."

CHARLES JACOBS
President
The David Project
Boston