Saudi Families: Muslim and Money Flows

saudi families: The government also says it will monitor previously unchecked money flows from donors, including prominent Saudi families, to mosques on the Indian Ocean island, according to The Japan Times. Nobody will be able to just make donations now, said Muslim Cabinet Minister Kabir Hashim, who has urged Muslim communities to look at how radical ideas could have spread. On April 21, nine Sri Lankans blew themselves up in churches and luxury hotels, killing more than 250 people and shocking the country a decade after its civil war ended. ; Sri Lanka has since arrested a Wahhabi scholar and is poised to take over a Saudi-funded school. He said the Department of Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs will oversee donations. Jihadi organizations, including Islamic State which claimed responsibility for the Easter bombings follow an extreme interpretation of Islam's Salafi branch, of which Wahhabism was the original strain. The outcry in Sri Lanka is the latest sign that Wahhabism, which critics deem a root cause of the jihadi threat, is under pressure internationally. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.