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Inside a Complex CommunityReligion: King Fahd Mosque in Culver City struggles to unite adiverse group of people.By TERESA WATANABETIMES STAFF WRITERMarch 17 2002No place in Southern California symbolizes the tension overSaudi Arabia's influence in the world like the King Fahd Mosquein Culver City.This marble mosque on Washington Boulevard, built entirelywith Saudi funds, tests many of the stereotypes that havesurfaced about the oil kingdom since Sept.11.The mosque's leaders admire Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab,an 18thcentury evangelist. Al-Wahhab inspired the so-calledWahhabi movement, which is prominent in Saudi Arabia butcriticized by detractors for oppressing women, shunning non- Muslims andinspiring Osama bin Laden's jihad. The chairmanof the mosque's foundation, a former Saudi Embassy official,has helped funnel millions of dollars in Saudi funds toSouthland Muslims. Critics suggest this aid comes with a price:suppressing a more flexible brand of Islam in favor of the oilkingdom's puritanical creed.A close look at the 4-year-old mosque and the faithful whonurture it, however, reveals a more complex picture than thecaricatures that have shaped public perceptions of Saudi Arabiaand Wahhabism.Inside the mosque community, there are those who aresympathetic to jihad and suicide bombings and those who arenot. Some object to non-Muslims visiting their sacred space;others warmly embrace them. Some women veil their entirebodies; others throw off such practices as outdated.The King Fahd Mosque's struggles to unite a people drawn from

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All Rights R eservedLos Angeles TimesMarch 17, 2002 Sunday Home Edition

SECTION: California Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Metro DeskLENGTH: 2375 wordsHEADLINE: Inside a Complex Community;Religion: King Fahd Mosque in C ulver City struggles to unite a diverse group of peop le.BYLINE: TERESA WATANABE, TIMES STAFF WRITERBODY:

No place in Southern California symbolizes the tension over Saudi Arabia's influence in the world like the KingFahd Mosque in Culver City.This marble mosque on W ashington Boulevard, built entirely with Saudi funds, tests many of the stereotypes thathave surfaced about the oil kingdom since Sept. 11.The mosque's leaders admire Muham mad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, an 18th century evangelist. Al-W ahhab inspired theso-called W ahhabi movem ent, which is prominent in Saudi Arabia but criticized by detractors for oppressing women,shunning non-Muslims and inspiring Osama bin Laden's jihad.The chairman of the mosque's foundation, a former Saudi Embassy official, has helped funnel millions of dollars inSaudi funds to Southland Muslims. Critics suggest this aid comes with a price: suppressing a more flexible brand ofIslam in favor of the oil kingdom 's puritanical creed.A close look at the 4-year-old mosque and the faithful who nurture it, however, reveals a more complex picturethan the caricatures that have shaped pu blic perceptions of Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism.Inside the mosque comm unity, there are those who are sympathetic to jihad and suicide bom bings and those w hoare not. Some object to non-M uslims visiting their sacred space; others w armly embrace them. Some wom en veil theirentire bodies; others throw off such practices as outdated.The King Fahd M osque's struggles to unite a people drawn from a broad range of ideologies, culture and race seemfamiliar and quintessentially American. The diversity belies the notion of an insular people in ideological lock-step,beholden to a distant desert sheikdom."W e do not want to be seen as a Saudi outfit," says the mosque's imam, Tajuddin Shuaib, a Ghana native whostudied Islam for a decade in Saudi Arabia and w as sent to the U.S. a quarter-century ago. "W e are like the UnitedNations ... no one nationality dom inates."Suspicion of Saudi Arabia SurgesSince Sept. 11, American suspicion of Saudi Arabia has surged, particularly because most of the suspectedhijackers were S audi-born, as was Bin Laden himself. O ther critics charge the Saudis with encouraging the jihadmovem ent by finan cing religious schools that preach extremist hate. Saudi officials have vehemently denied thecharges, noting that they stripped Bin Laden of his Saudi citizenship and that they had long been condemned by him for

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SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 4; National DeskLENGTH: 1488 wordsHEADLINE: A NATION CHALLENGED: AMERICAN MUSLIMS;Saudis Seek to Add U.S. Mu slims to Their SectBYLINE: By ELAINE HARDENBODY:

In a costly and qu ietly insistent campaign to spread its state religion, Saudi Arabia has been trying for decades toinduce Am erican Muslims to become followers of the puritanical Islamic sect that sustains the pow er of the Saudi royalfamily.By building mosques across the country, sending Am ericans to the Middle East to be trained as imams andpromoting pilgrimages to Mecca, the Saudis have spent hundreds of m illions of dollars in an effort to stamp theiraustere version of Islam on the lives of Muslims in the United States.That version is called Wahhabism, although the S audis are loath to use the term in referring to their proselytizingin this country. As practiced in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism denies equal rights to wom en, and its teachings have inspiredthe violent extremism of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban g overnment that harbors him in Afghanistan."In America, the Saudis don't call it Wahhabism because they don't want to have all the albatrosses associated withthe sect," said Earle H. Waugh, a professor of religion at the University of Alberta, who is the author of several booksabout Muslims in North America. "But they have a strong mission tradition, and they have used their money to exp orttheir ideology to America. Wahhabism says that Islam is the superior religion and must always be so."Despite all their efforts, the Saudis' approach to Islam appears not to have found widespread acceptance in theUnited States and in fact seems to have faded in popularity here in recent years, perhaps because it is too rigid for amultiethnic society like America's. Experts estimate that of the two million American Muslims who attend mosquesregularly, no more than 25 percent, and perhaps many fewer, adhere to the strictures of Wahhabism.As the Saudis themselves explain, their beliefs reject aspects of Western culture that they see as deviating fromfundamental teachings of the Koran. Mingling of the sexes, living in a community where alcohol is consumed, eatingpork and interacting very closely w ith non-Muslim society are forbidden ."A knowledgeable Muslim will find it hard to integrate into a non-Islamic society of the United States," explainedMuhammad al-Alahmari, a Saudi who is chairman of the Islamic Assembly of No rth America, an organization based inAnn Arbor, Mich., that sends copies of the Koran to prisons and libraries.About half the group's money, Mr. Alahmari said, comes from the Saudi government, with the rest coming fromprivate donors, most of them Saudi.A n umbe r of prominent religious scholars describe Wahh abism as a particularly rigid minority Islamic sect that isintolerant of other form s of Islam, unwilling to accommo date other religions and likely to create a narrow v iew of theworld amo ng its followers.


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Middle E ast NewsfileJuly 19, 1998

LENGTH: 847 wordsHEADLINE: Prince Abdulaziz opens King Fahd Mosque in LABYLINE: By TALAAT WAFA and AHMED AL YAMI

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LO S ANGELES-Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd bin Abdu laziz, state minister and cabinet member h ailed thesignificant support given by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz and his Crown Prince forthe support of Islam and M uslims w orldwide.In a speech following his opening of King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles, Prince A bdulaziz noted that Islam hascalled for the formation of one nation with no geographical barriers or ethnic differences.He pointed out that King Fahd and his Crow n Prince who realize the noble objectives and lofty meanings of theeternal message of Islam are keen in the construction of mosques for the spread of the proper Islamic creed, todemonstrate the reality of Islam as a religion o f love, tolerance and the top advocator of hu man rights.He underlined that by the opening of this mosque a great accomplishment, that Muslims in this area have been

looking forward to see. He noted that the project has received all support from friends in the United States, a matterwhich confirm the strong relations and friendship between the King dom and the United States. He added that the basisof this relation laid more than 50 years ago by the late King Abdu laziz bin Abdu lrahman and P resident FranklinRoosevelt.Concluding his speech Prince Abdu laziz announced that King Fahd do nated funds for the construction of anIslamic Sciences and Qu ran Memorization School to be annexed to the mosque.Answering reporters questions later, Prince Abdulaziz noted that the Kingdom, since its establishment, is concernedwith Islamic issues, adding that it is the duty of the Kingd om to be concerned with Islam and Muslims everywhere.Asked ab out the role of the W est Am erican mosque, Prince Abdulaziz said that the objective of this mosque w as toenable all Muslims and the entire Islamic commu nity here to easily and com fortably practice Islamic rituals. M oreover,it will link Muslims here with the causes of Muslims worldwide.Prince Abdu laziz said that the King dom has no specific set plan for the construction of other mosques in the United

States, but added that if the Kingd om sees that there is a need for establishing a mosque in the United S tates or anyother place it will be happy to give all support for Muslims.On reaction of American officials towards the establishing of this mosque, Prince Abdu laziz said, "I would like firstto deeply thank ou r friends in the United States for their cooperation and the support they give for the establishing ofthis mosque and other Islamic centers and schools. As it is known, the United States supports such pro jects and knowthat our objective (behind these projects) is only the service of Muslim community in this country and others."Prince Abdulaziz praised the Islamic role played by Saudi students studying in the United States.


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All Rights ReservedLos Angeles TimesJuly 18 , 1998, Saturday, Home Edition

SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 1; Metro DeskLENGTH: 1117 wordsHEADLINE: ANSWERED PRAYERS;MOSQUE OPENS ON WESTSIDE WITH HELP FROM SAUDI ROYAL FAMILYBYLINE: JOHN DART, TIMES STAFF WRITERBODY:

Praising American freedom of religion, a Saudi prince Friday dedicated an $ 8.1-million mosque in Culver City~the first major Muslim house of worship on Los Angeles' Westside and the first Islamic center in North America to befully funded by the Saudi Arabian royal family.With its 79-foot-tall minaret towering over Washington Boulevard and its twin domes, one of them glass, thegleaming white King Fahd Mosque "is one of the five most beautiful mosques in this country," said MuzammilSiddiqi, an Orange County Islamic leader who is president of the Islamic Society of North America.Th e new mosque, covered with imported marble and decorated with blue tiles inside and out, "is a welcome

addition," said Hassan Hathout, outreach director of the Los Angeles-based Islamic Center of Southern California.About 75 mosques serve the growing Muslim community in Southern California. Estimates of the population vary.Local Muslim leaders say it is as high as 300,000, although non-Muslim demographers say that estimate is too high.Some U.S. Muslim leaders said privately that Saudi influence is not always greeted happily in America, wherefreedom of expression and faith are taken for granted. Th e Saudi Arabian kingdomguardian of Islam's holiest sites,Mecca and Medinaenforces a rigidly orthodox code for Muslims in that country and bars the slightest non-Muslimreligious expression, making it illegal, for instance, for a Christian to wear a cross.Imam W.D. Mohammed of Chicago, leader of the American Muslim Society, a primarily African AmericanMuslim organization, extended official congratulations to the prince, Abdul Aziz, and the directors of the new mosque.Bu t in a brief interview, Mohammed said he "was no t pleased with the problem of not accommodating people of non-Muslim faith in the kingdom; we ought to do something about it."Others, however, said the new mosque and Saudi internal affairs are separate matters.Th e Saudi donors and foundation "are doing a good thing by building a mosque," Hathout said. "It is irrelevant inthis context to bring up the full spectrum of opinions about the internal affairs of Saudi Arabia."Similarly, William Baker, an advisor to the Rev. Robert Schuller at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, said,

"In truth, there is intolerance all over the world, against both Christians and Muslims." Baker heads a bridge-buildingorganization called Christians and Muslims for Peace.Aziz spoke of "peace and love" for fellow Muslims and for religious cooperation with non-Muslims in this country.


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All Rights ReservedLo s Angeles TimesFebruary 23, 2002 Saturday Home Edition

SECTION: California Metro; Part 2; Page 4; Metro DeskLENGTH: 564 wordsHEADLINE: Los Angeles;Muslims, Jews Join to Honor Abraham;History: Seeking to learn of Islam, temple group visits mosque on a day dedicated to their common patriarch.BYLINE: TERESA WATANABE, TIMES STAFF WRITERBODY:

On one of Islam's most important holidays, a day dedicated to the remembrance of Abraham, Los Angeles Muslimsand Jews met Friday and reminded themselves of their common patriarch.

With 45 members in tow, Rabbi Harold Schulweis of Valley Beth Shalom journeyed from Encino and crossedmountains, literal and otherwise, to meet with the Muslims of King Fahd Mosque in Culver City. For many fromSchulweis' Conservative congregation, it was their first visit to a mosque prayer serviceyet, they said, it somehowseemed familiar.

Judy Geller noticed the absence of statues and pictures; Judaism and Islam shy away from what the Bible callsgraven images. Others noted the physical separation of men and women, also common to Orthodox Judaism. Schulweis,half-jokingly, noticed the collection boxes.

And there was Abraham, the common patriarch-who was the subject of Imam Tajuddin Shuaib's Friday sermonand is praised in calligraphy adorning the mosque's domed hall. Shuaib spoke about Abraham's willingness to sacrifice ason until God lifted the command. That event was celebrated Friday by Muslims worldwide during the start of the three-day festival Eid ul-Adha, marking the end of the hajj-the pilgrimage to Mecca.

"There is the shock of recognition that we have common roots and desires," said Schulweis.The trip to the mosque was the rabbi's first foray into the sometimes prickly arena of Muslim-Jewish relations. Oneof the Southland's most influential rabbis, Schulweis broke ground more than three decades ago in nurturing Jewish-

Catholic ties. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony's two visits to his synagogue several years ago, he said, startled Catholics andJews.

Now, Schulweis said, it was time to reach out to Muslims.Groundwork for the trip was laid last fall, when Schulweis invited Nazir Khaja of the Islamic Information Serviceto speak on Islam as part of the synagogue's lecture series on world religions. The lecture, delivered two months afterthe Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, drew 2,200 people, the largest crowd of the series.In return, Khaja arranged the reciprocal visit to the King Fahd Mosque, which the Jewish Defense League

allegedly sought to bomb last year.


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SECTION: Main News Main News; Part 1; Page 1; Metro DeskLENGTH: 1330 wordsHEADLINE: U.S. Muslims Divided Over Saudi Aid FOR THE RECORDBYLINE: Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff WriterBODY:

One of the nation's most prominent Islamic organizations has accepted a $500,000 donation from a Saudi prince,sparking a blunt debate among American Muslims over whether foreign contributions are compro mising theirindependence and the integrity of their organizations."To what extent is this part of the larger Saudi effort to co-opt our organizations?" asked Mairaj Syed, a UCLAgraduate student in Islamic studies who opened an online debate about the donation on San Francisco-based AMILAnet,a Muslim-oriented discussion group. It has been one o f the main forums for debate over the donation."For too long we've depended too often on overseas financing to keep our institutions alive. This comes at the price

of our intellectual independence and integrity," Syed said.Omar A hmed, board chairman of the Council on Am erican-Islamic Relations, which received the gift, said thedonation would be used to support a $2 .5-million project aimed at placing Islamic educational material in the nation's16,000 public libraries.Th e contribution came w ith no strings attached, he said. "We run our ow n agenda and no o ne can influence us,"said A hmed, who added that he had received no com plaints about the donation from the council's roughly 28,000registered mem bers. Foreign donations make up about 20% of the council's fund-raising for its national office inWashington, D.C., and 15 regional chapters, and are accepted only if no conditions come with the money, Ahmed said.Th e gift to the council from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and one of thekingdom's richest men, comes at a time w hen the Saudi royal family's spending on Muslims in the United States has

been the subject of new questions.Last week, it was disclosed that Saudi Princess Haifa al Faisal, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the UnitedStates, apparently gave thousands of dollars to two Saudi nationals in San Diego, who then p rovided funds to two of the

Sept. 11 hijackers. FBI investigators have said that they do not believe the royal family deliberately aided the terrorists,but the issue has fanned concerns on Capitol Hill over Saudi financial support of Muslims here.Saudi Arabia is the largest single contributor to Islamic causes ~ ranging from m osques to religious literature torefugee aid ~ around the world. Experts say, however, that its support of American Muslims has significantly droppedin the last decade.Critics of the prince's gift have begun publicly questioning it, calling it everything from immoral to a "strategicmistake" that would fuel criticism of Am erican Muslims as Saudi mouthpieces.


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SECTION: State and RegionalLENGTH: 368 wordsHEADLINE: SoCal Saudi envoy and religious leader is deportedBODY:

LO S ANGEL ES - U.S. officials denied entry and expelled from the country a Saudi consular official and Muslimleader suspected of having terrorist links.Fahad al Thumairy, 31, was detained at Los A ngeles International A irport Tuesday after arriving from Frankfurt.He was deported Thursday on a plane headed for Saudi Arabia and may not return to the U nited States for fiveyears, according to authorities."H e was placed on an international flight, destined for Riyadh," said Virginia Kice, a spokeswo man for theDepartment of Homeland Security.Al Thumairy, who h as worked for the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles since 1996, apparently w as not aware thatU.S. authorities had revoked his diplomatic visa in March.He held a post in the Islamic and cultural affairs section of the consulate and w as the imam at the King FahdMosque in Culver City, which has one of the largest Muslim congregations in the region.The mosque, w hich was built with financing from the Saudi government, was the target of a foiled bomb plot by amember of the militant Jewish De fense League in 2001.Al Thum airy's name had been placed on a computerized list of travelers w ho should not be allowed to enter theUnited States because of suspected links to terrorism, but officials would not imm ediately provide details on the allegedconnection.Officials of the Saudi consulate in Los Ang eles and the Saudi Embassy in Washington declined to comme nt on theincident Friday.Al Thumairy was described as extremely spiritual, beloved and nonviolent by officials at the King Fahd Mosque."He never dealt with politics, in his public comments or in private gatherings," said Tajuddin Shuaib, a native ofGhana who directs the mosque, which is run by a nonp rofit group. "Like the rest of us, he was really shocked aboutSept. 11. He felt it was wrong and, in the long term, that it would harm Muslims. His impression was that it would havesome ba d repercussions."Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has increased scrutiny of visa applications from Mu slim nations around theworld. The num ber of Saudi Arabians who received visas dropped nearly 70 percent in the 2002 fiscal year to about14,100.


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Th e King Fahd Mosque in Gibraltar, seen above,is one of the many mosques and Islamic Centers established with Saudi funds

outside the Islamic world.

"rr e shall make every e f f o r t to strengthen our relations with our brothers in Muslim and Arabcountries, and we shall do our utmost fo r th e Muslim community. "This statement, made by the Custodian of the Tw o Holy Mosques King Fah d Ibn Abdul Aziz, reflectsthe depth of Saudi Arabia's dedication to Islam and to the service of Muslims worldwide.Saudi Arabia's comm itment to serve the Muslim community takes many forms. The Kingdom hasprovided tens of billions of dollars in aid throughout the w orld. To allow Muslims to make the annualpilgrimage to the Holy M osque in Makkah in safety an d comfort, it has built a vast network of airports,seaports, roads and other facilities, and it has invested huge sums on the expansion of the Holy Mosqueand the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah. It is active in ventures to promote the interests of Muslimseverywhere.

Saudi Arabia has also undertaken arange of other, albeit less visible,programs. One of these is the effort toserve M uslim minority comm unities innon-Muslim countries.

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townhall.comSaudi Money Everywhere Akbar W asJoel Mowbray (back to webversion)April 9, 2003With the Islamic connection seemingly undeniable in the Asan Akb ar grenade casethe black Mulim engineer was heard byother soldiers immediately after the attack ranting, "Youguys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape ourwomen and kill our children." (notice "youguys" and "our")thequestion that must be asked is "where is the Saudimon ey?" In the case of Akbar, the answer is "everywhere."

Akbar grew up attending a Saudi-funded mosque in South Central Los Angeles, and then he went to a mosque dominated bya Saudi-created and funded organiza tion. In the military, his Muslim chaplain at Fort Campbe ll was trained and certified bySaudi-funded organizations. It'spossible that all this Saudi mo ney produce d no Islamic extremism at any of these points inAkbar 's lifebut empirical evidence suggests that's unlikely.

Attending the mosque across the street from his place, A kbar spent a lot of time during his form ative years at the BilalIslamic Center, according to the center's Imam , Abdul Karim Hasan. When asked about any possible Saudi connection to hismosque, Hasanperhaps understandably defensive in the anti-Saudi climateis quick to say that he does no t take moneyfrom the "Saudi government," though he conceded that he receives funds from Saudi "individuals." That's not entirely true,however.According to the web site of the Islamic Development Banka multibillion dollar investment outfit run by many Arabgovernments, but based in Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaBilal Islamic Center recently received a $295,000 grant from ISD to builda new school. Considering the stated purpose of ISD to advance M uslim comm unities in accordance with"Shari'ah" (Islamic law of the kind found in Saudi Arabia)one wonders what theCenter's newschool will be teaching.But it'snot just the mo ney that raises questions. Bilal Islamic Center "works closely" with King Fahd M osque in Culver City

(roughly 30 minutes from South Central LA), according to a source at the latter mosque which is not just named after KingFahd, but also funded by him. And based on the annual statement released by the House of Saud on its efforts to spreadIslam thro ughou t the world, Bilal Islamic Center is also funded by the kingdom (under the name "Bilal Mosque of LosAngeles"), although the exact am ount is not specified.When he left for college in 1989, Akbar did not leave the Saudi-funded experiencebehind. At the University of Californiaat Davis, Akbar was seen as a devout Muslim by friends, and multiple reports state that he spent large am ounts of time at thenearby Islamic Center of Davis. The Islamic Center of Davis, as it happen s, is home to the UC-Da vis chapter of the MuslimStudents Association, a Saudi-created and funded national organization with branches on campuses across the country. It isalso past an d possibly present home to someone with surprisingly similar anti-American sentiment.In a puff piece in December 2 000 on the Muslim students of the Islamic Center of Davis, then third-year law studentMasood Khan spouted a vitriolic contempt for America that in many ways mirrors what Akbar said while cowering in the

bunker after his killing spree. "There have been over one million innocent Iraqis killed by the United States," Khan said."It's a war crime." Not a far cry from the equally obscene comm ent from Akbar that "youguys" are going to "rape ourwomen and kill our children."While stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Akbar was one of roughly 20 soldiers who attended weekly servicesandhis Muslim chaplain there wa s trained and certified by institutions with significan t Saudi funding. According to a militarysource, Captain M ohammed Khan trained at the Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences (GSISS), which has a historyofSaudi funding and was one of 24 Mulim organ izations raided in the Justice Departm ent's Operation G reenquest last year, andhe was certified by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which was not raided but is affiliated with the SAARnetwork (named for its wealthy Saudi benefactor Suleiman Abdel Aziz al-Raghi).

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15/02/2002 Saudicommitment toestablishing Islamiccenters, mosques andinstitutesRiyadh, 15th February 2002The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia haspaid great attention toestablishing mosques and Islamiccenters, institutes and universitiesin a number of non-Islamiccountries all over the world. Surethat this is the most effective wayto spread Islamic culture andArabic language, the Kingdom,under the leadership of theCustodian of the Two HolyMosques King Fahd bin AbdulAziz, has established 210 Islamiccenters in non-Islamic countries inEurope, North and SouthAmerica, Australia and Asia.Among the biggest is King FahdIslamic Center in Malaga, Spain,on an area of 3,848 sq. m., whosefoundation stone was laid in 1998.The university-like Centerembraces academic, educational,cultural, and propagatoryactivities.King Fahd has donated fivemillion US dollars for the cost ofthe Islamic Center in Toronto,Canada, in addition to 1 .5 millionUS dollars annually to run thefacility.

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