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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: trouthead who wrote (3952)	6/15/2005 12:27:56 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 9838

Liberal Dem. gets zapped! big-boys.com

To: trouthead who wrote (3952)	6/15/2005 1:26:58 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

School plan divides Lodi mosque Sacramento Bee ^ \| 6/15/5 \| Christina Jewett Before an FBI terrorism investigation sparked the anger and fear of the Lodi Pakistani Muslim community, a rift over plans for a school led by an imam who is now under federal arrest divided the community of about 700. While the Pakistani community grapples with a terrorism investigation many feel has gone too far and left them open to racist retaliation, the internal conflict over the building of a new mosque and religious school has spawned a lawsuit and an acrimonious county Planning Commission hearing. In a lawsuit filed in March, board members of the Lodi Muslim Mosque allege fraud and deceit in the planning of the proposed Islamic center. The suit accuses Muhammed Adil Khan, 47, the imam of the Lodi Muslim Mosque who is currently in federal custody in the terrorism probe, and four others of misuse of money to build the Islamic center. The suit, filed in San Joaquin Superior Court, challenges plans to build the school and mosque on 18 acres southwest of Lodi and the fact that some of the finances would be controlled by a Muslim group in East Palo Alto. "When they found out, they felt they'd been taken," said attorney Joe Rishwain Jr., who represents leaders of the mosque. "It was supposed to be a local school, owned by the local mosque." Rishwain said members of the mosque were unhappy that Khan put about $200,000 they raised into the name of the Farooqia Islamic Center, a nonprofit Islamic organization with most of its board members living in the Bay Area. Members of the community have speculated that Khan's opponents on the project spurred the FBI investigation of terrorism that led to his detention in the Santa Clara Main Jail. (Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ... sacbee.com