Sunday, February 4, 2007
JR Telegraph has an email circulated by "secular Jewish" group Workmen's Circle inviting its members to a discussion over whether to support the ongoing series of lawsuits filed by the Islamic Society of Boston against a number of area groups and individuals (no doubt soon to include my cat) stemming from their beleaguered Boston Mosque project. Apparently, ISB's attorney, Howard Cooper, is pressuring the group to sign on.
Says Greg:
Jewish boy, Howie Cooper works hard for his pay. He works hard for his client, Islamic Society of Boston. He defends their right to intimidate and scare into silence everybody who would come up with a question about such private things as funding, connections to ideologues of global Jihad, or propriety or impropriety of the society's dealings with a Boston governmental agency. So, Howie Cooper thought up a great idea -- to DEMAND from Workmen's Circle, a Jewish group dedicated to social justice and Yiddish culture, to demand from this Jewish organization, a letter SUPPORTING ISB right to sue everybody in sight...
Read the rest of Greg's post, and the email invitation in question, here.
If anyone went to last night's meeting, I'd like to hear what happened. I unfortunately had another obligation.
Workman's Circle should avoid taking either side of this dispute, because both have behaved badly. One wants to prevent a religious group from building a place of worship; the other wants to shout down free speech with SLAPP lawsuits. A pox on both.