Saturday, December 24, 2005

SoxBlog takes a swing at the Globe's coverage of controversial Roxbury mosque

The Globe takes a belated peek at the controversy surrounding a new mosque in Roxbury. Why has it taken the Globe this long? It might have to do with political correctness or just laziness or just the inability to grasp the issue's importance says SoxBlog.

SoxBlog's Dean Barnett published a detailed piece in the Weekly Standard recently highlighting some of the unsavory characters associated with the Islamic Society of Boston's $22 million mosque in Roxbury. Moreover Barnett zooms into the cozy real estate deal worked out by ISB and the City of Boston.

When I labeled the question of why the Globe hadn?t covered this story in its own backyard as only a ?pretty good? one, the reason I gave it relatively low marks is because we all know the answer as to why the Globe ignored the story. The Globe would be incapable of covering such a matter without its trademark slavish adherence to political correctness. There?s no way the Globe could cover the controversy either honestly or accurately.

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