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In the end, however, none of the charges stuck. Indeed, the testimonies in the David Project film were eventually either discredited or never corroborated. In 2009, Massad earned tenure after winning Columbias prestigious Lionel Trilling Award for excellence in scholarship.
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Having demonstrated its ability to intimidate faculty members and even powerful university administrators, however, Kramer claimed a moral victory in the name of his project, boasting to the press that this is a turning point.
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While the David Project subsequently fostered chapters on campuses nationwide, its director set out on a different path initially, into the streets of Boston in 2004 to oppose the construction of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.
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For nearly 15 years, the Islamic Society of Boston had sought to build the center in the heart of Roxbury, the citys largest black neighborhood, to serve its sizable Muslim population. With endorsements from Mayor Thomas Menino and leading Massachusetts lawmakers, the mosques construction seemed like a fait accompli until, that is, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Boston Herald and his local Fox News affiliate snapped into action.
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Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby also chimed in with a series of reportsclaiming the centers plans were evidence of a Saudi Arabian plot to bolster the influence of radical Islam in the United States, and possibly even to train underground terror cells.
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/01/10/the_boston_mosques_saudi_connection - The Boston mosque's Saudi connection.
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this is how the mainstream media create Islamophoia.
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It was at this point that the David Project entered the fray, convening elements of the local pro-Israel community in the Boston area to seek strategies to torp*do the project.
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According to emails obtained by the Islamic Societys lawyers in a lawsuit against the David Project, the organizers settled on a campaign of years of nuisance lawsuits, along with accusations that the center had received foreign funding from the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia or the Moslem Brotherhood. SEE EMAILS BELOW.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00149.htm - d*mning Evidence against The David Project Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 9:26 am Press Release: PRESS RELEASE Islamic Society of Boston releases Opposition Emails: d*mning Evidence against The David Project
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