Source: The Daily Free Press
On December 9, 2005 The Daily Free Press reported, "After accusations of terrorist ties were leveled at the Islamic Society of Boston by two Boston media outlets over the past two years, the ISB has announced that it is fighting back. In a series of reports dating to October 2003, the Boston Herald and FOX25 alleged that the ISB was providing funds to fundamentalists overseas. But in a lawsuit filed on Halloween this year, two ISB leaders, Dr. Yousef Abou-Allaban and Dr. Osama Kandil, insisted that the allegations were part of a coordinated attack on Boston's Muslim community intended to derail the construction of a $22 million mosque and cultural center in Roxbury. The lawsuit is an expansion of two previous lawsuits by Abou-Allaban and Kandil to include other members of an alleged conspiracy against the ISB. The new litigation seeks damages for defamation and argues that the media outlets and others conspired to deprive the plaintiffs 'of their basic rights of free association and the free exercise of their religion.'"