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Viewing cable 09RIYADH888, EMBASSY RIYADH'S EXPANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH IMAM MOHAMMAD

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09RIYADH888 2009-07-06 12:01 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Riyadh
VZCZCXRO6640
PP RUEHDE RUEHDH RUEHDIR
DE RUEHRH #0888/01 1871201
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 061201Z JUL 09
FM AMEMBASSY RIYADH
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1120
INFO RUEHJI/AMCONSUL JEDDAH 0214
RUEHZM/GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 RIYADH 000888 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NEA/PPD FOR PAGNEW, DBENZE, NEA/ARP FOR JHARRIS, ECA/A/E/NEA FOR 
DIVES, ECA/A/S/A FOR CDANZ 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO PGOV PINR OEXC SCUL SA
SUBJECT: EMBASSY RIYADH'S EXPANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH IMAM MOHAMMAD 
BIN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY 
 
REF:  RIYADH 00887 
 
SUMMARY 
------- 
 
1. (SBU) Programming in Saudi Arabia can be an exercise in 
frustration, but paradoxically, as some doors shut, others seem to 
open wider. One prime example is the deepening Embassy relationship 
with the once-ultraconservative Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic 
University, and its increasing willingness to work with the Embassy 
on programming. This appears especially true of some of the younger 
religious faculty committed to King Abdullah's initiatives for 
interfaith dialogue, and the increasing number of faculty who teach 
secular subjects, and who are largely Western educated. Imam 
University is eager to shed its reputation as a breeding ground for 
extremist religious thought, and also to become (and be recognized) 
as a full scale university, and not just as the equivalent of a 
seminary. Imam is engaged in a massive, USD 300 million building and 
expansion program on its huge main campus. Imam has 65,000 students 
(40,000 men and 25,000 women). (End Summary) 
 
GROWING RELATIONSHIP WITH IMAM MOHAMMED UNIVERSITY 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
 
2. (SBU) Embassy, working primarily through Public Affairs, has made 
important progress in building a constructive relationship with Imam 
University, once a noted breeding ground for extremist religious 
thought. It is the leading school in Saudi Arabia for training 
religious leaders and judges, and the Saudis aspire to see it viewed 
as the equal of Egypt's AL-Azhar. Its faculty and students have a 
profound influence on Saudi academia as well as the country's 
religious and political leaders. It has some 61 institutes across 
Saudi Arabia, and affiliates in Al-Khaima (U.A.E.), Mauretania, 
Djibouti, Indonesia and Japan, and previously in the U.S. Embassy's 
relationship began when the Ministry of Higher Education nominated a 
young (at the time 35) Assistant Professor of Sharia, Dr. 
Abdulkareem Al-Sayegh, to participate in a PAS Single Country (SCP) 
International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) for religious 
educators in 2006. 
 
3. (SBU) In November 2007, Dr. Abdulkareem was appointed the first 
dean for the Center for Contemporary Islamic Studies and Dialogue 
among Civilizations founded at Imam University, the first center of 
its kind in Saudi Arabia. The Center's main objectives include 
promoting peace and understanding between the Muslim world and the 
West; promoting peace and tolerance within the Muslim world; 
fighting terrorism; and supporting emerging efforts within the 
Kingdom towards greater plurality and dialogue. PAS maintained its 
contact with Dr. Abdulkareem, and in March, 2008 arranged a 
Voluntary Visitor (VolVis) program for him for March, 2008 to learn 
more about how American institutions promote, initiate and develop 
interfaith dialogue. PAS funding was also provided for him to meet 
Imam Dr. Bashar Arafat, Founder of the Civilizations Exchange and 
Cooperation Foundation in Baltimore, who, as Embassy's Ramadan 
speaker in 2007, had visited Imam University. 
 
4. (SBU) In August 2008, Embassy again hosted Dr. Arafat as its 
Ramadan speaker. Dr. Abdulakareem arranged an official meeting with 
Dr. Sulaiman Aba al-Khail, the rector of Imam University, and hosted 
at his home two meetings for Imam Arafat, one with a group of 
Islamic Scholars and one with the staff of his Dialogue Center 
attended by then Ambassador Fraker and PAS Counselor, as well as Dr. 
Abdulakareem's young (about 37) associate, Dr. Fahad Al-Homoudi. It 
was in fact Dr. Abdulkareem who had suggested Dr. Fahad as an 
excellent candidate for the 2008 Fulbright Interfaith Community 
Action Program. (See Reftel) Embassy is now working with Dr. 
Abdulkareem and Dr. Fahad on an SCP for Imam undergraduates as part 
of our program for religious educators. 
 
PROJECT FOR EMBASSY EXHIBIT AT IMAM UNIVERSITY 
--------------------------------------------- - 
 
5. (SBU) The Ambassador's dinner meeting with Dr. Fahad (Reftel) 
also appears to have given the final necessary push to a project we 
had been discussing with him. After viewing PAS' exhibit "Picturing 
America" at the National Museum, Dr. Fahad suggested bringing it to 
Imam University, which would be a first. He believed the students 
needed to be exposed to more and different cultures. Shortly after 
the dinner, Fahad informed Embassy that he had discussed the idea 
with the rector of Imam University and that the rector welcomed the 
idea. While "Picturing America" is now in Libya and booked for the 
next two years, PAS is working with Dr. Fahad and Imam University 
(through the proper channels, he was clear to note) to bring a 
different exhibit (probably on Abraham Lincoln) to Imam University 
during the new academic year, and with Washington to restage 
"Picturing America" in a slightly different form. 
 
RIYADH 00000888  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
FROM A BREEDING GROUND FOR EXTREMISTS 
TO A MORE OPEN, GENERALIST UNIVERSITY 
------------------------------------- 
 
6. (SBU) Undoubtedly, Imam University is under royal orders to 
change its image (and the country's) as a breeding ground for 
extremists. Dr. Abalkhail was named rector in March, 2007. His 
appointment may well be connected to those efforts to change Imam. 
He told PAS last year that he had been working as an advisor to the 
Ministry of Interior on terrorism issues, including Guantanamo 
returnees. In January of this year he traveled to Tokyo with an 
official delegation from Imam University to participate in a seminar 
hosted by the Japanese Christian University, Doshisha, where he 
spoke about Islam and future of interfaith dialogue. But some of the 
religion faculty are also sincerely committed to greater openness 
and pluralism on a more personal level. Imam's rapid expansion and 
desire to become a full-profile university (in addition to Arabic, 
Sharia/Law and various other Islamic disciplines, it offers degrees 
in linguistics, English language, science, computer science, 
management, economics) also means that an increasing proportion of 
its faculty are western-educated (two of six vice-rectors) and know 
the value and necessity of greater openness and contact with the 
U.S. and the West. 
 
7. (SBU) One result is that the influence of the extremely 
conservative Islamists (almost none of whom were educated outside 
Saudi Arabia) is beginning to decline. Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalaf, 
Dean of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Imam (M.A., 
University of Pittsburgh; PhD, Indiana) welcomed the April visit of 
the State Department's director for Mid East Fulbright programs, 
Donna Ives, and tried to put Imam's best face forward. Imam still 
has a very long way to go, and one should not exaggerate the 
possibility of rapid progress here or anywhere in Saudi society. But 
there is definitely a major opening for continued careful engagement 
with the U.S. Embassy and other foreign and Western institutions. 
ERDMAN