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David Project wants to know who funded trek
By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff
A critic of the Islamic Society of Boston’s efforts to construct a mosque at Roxbury Crossing demanded Wednesday that the society and the Boston Redevelopment Authority reveal who paid the expenses of the BRA deputy director who traveled to the Middle East on behalf of the mosque project.
The David Project, a Jewish advocacy group, said in a press release Wednesday that the BRA deputy director, Mohammad Ali-Salaam, had made more than one trip to the Middle East on behalf of the mosque project, and that the BRA and the Islamic society are refusing to divulge who had paid Ali Salaam’s expenses.
The group filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court in October seeking to force BRA disclosure of records regarding the mosque project.
A BRA spokeswoman, Jessica Shumaker, said the agency has responded fully to the David Project’s initial requests for information, and is waiting to hear whether the organization is willing to pay for public-records research to fill additional requests it has made.
