Saudi funding 560 mosques in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has approved a project to build hundreds of mosques with $1billion from Saudi Arabia.  The government plans to construct 560 mosques -one in every town in Bangladesh -as the secular administration woos Islamist groups before elections. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought the funds from Saudi Arabia, which will provide the lion’s share of the $1.07 billion cost, during a visit to the oil-rich state last year, said Bangladesh planning minister Mustofa Kamal. But minority groups are concerned that the proliferation of Saudibacked mosques could spread the ultra-conservative Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism practised in the Gulf kingdom.