.... Trustee Jim Manna was quoted as saying: “With all due respect, when we look at the world, we’ve got every right to ask these questions. It’s an emotional issue, where the money is coming from.”
.... As for the questions about Saudi Arabia, Manna said the country is “pushing and funding mosques throughout the world.”
“It is a mosque,” he said of the cultural center. “It is partly a mosque. We have every right to question what’s going to happen there, what’s going to go on there.” [The Oakland Press]
