Saudi Arabia is to retrain its 40,000 prayer leaders - also known as imams - in an effort to counter militant Islam.
Details of the plan were revealed in the influential Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat.
The plan is part of a wider programme launched by the Saudi monarch a few years ago to encourage moderation and tolerance in Saudi society.
The ministry of religious affairs and new centre for national dialogue will carry out the training, the paper said.
The centre was created five years ago to disseminate a moderate interpretation of Islamic tradition.
There is growing awareness in Saudi society that security measures alone are not enough to counter the threat of Islamic militancy.
Here's a thought: How about you start executing militant Imams? You execute people for other various "crimes", so why not this? Too afraid of the militants? Thinking that it might not work?
You created this problem and you're awfully lucky we don't solve this problem for you. A late night shooting here, a kidnapping there, we can be ruthless when we want to be.
If we start noticing that radical Islamic terrorists keep coming from your country, we have a tendency to do something about it.
Travis
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