And you do know don't you, that any fatwa issued by a cleric is as good as worthless if the 'learned opinion' is opposed by a competing sect of islam such as the wahabbe who seek to dominate islam.
May I draw your attention to the last paragraph of my previous comment:
"In a particularly disturbing case, the Islamic Development Bank also granted US$295,000 to the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center, for the construction of the Bilal Islamic Primary and Secondary School in California, in 1999.3 Hassan Akbar, an American Muslim presently charged with a fatal attack on his fellow soldiers in Kuwait during the Iraq intervention, was affiliated with this institution."
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8715
While the muslims in the US can't reach agreement between themselves as to where their loyalty lies, caution might be wise.
Hey Fred...
I noticed that also - I can't figure out what the Saudis would want to do with this, they don't want the Imans taking their country away from them, so why would they want them running ours and if they want to screw up the world, all they need to do is turn off the wells.
$300 grand for a primary and secondary school ?
The median home price in LA in 1999 was $223,000 so a 300K donation dosen't buy much.