The Sunday Guardian

Saudi cash floods India to promote Wahhabism

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA NEW DELHI

Individual­s and institutio­ns in Saudi Arabia are pumping in millions of rupees into India to open religious trusts and non-government­al organisati­ons, reveal the diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks last week. Officials with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have termed this as “an attempt to help spread and propagate Wahhabism in the country”. This is a creed, which has extreme views on women and minority rights, besides other restrictiv­e aspects that are opposed to the liberal spirit and democratic advances of the 21st century. An undat e d do c ument, which according to WikiLeaks, originated from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in New Delhi, contains the list of Indian institutio­ns

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