went toward at least 1,500 mosques

set aside to spread Wahhabism and Salafism across the world. Between 1982 and 2005, an official record shows that the Saudi regime under King Fahd spent over US$1 billion “on mosques, schools, preachers and teachers’ salaries, scholarships, and textbooks, which went toward at least 1,500 mosques, 200 Islamic centres, 200 colleges, and 2,000 schools or madrasas” worldwide.[3] Some US$10 million of the total US$1 billion was used to build mosques across the United States. The US$1 billion was provided by the government and does not account for contributions from private funders with similar aims. Salafism is controversial due to its promotion of an uncompromising form of Islam, such as its penchant for eschewing and even attacking the practice of mysticism or the worship of saints, which Salafis consider to be religious innovations (bid’ah) which have no basis in Islamic teachings. Western and Asian scholars and media have often accused the Saudi government of exporting a radical version of Islam through its funding.[4] Some of the money allegedly even went into funding terrorist activities. For example, the United Nations recommended that assets belonging to a Saudi charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF), be frozen between 2004 and 2010 due to alleged links to the terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda สล็อต เว็บตรง