Sweden Invests In Imams

Kista Folk High School in Sweden will be training imams with a government grant in the autumn, in the hopes of counteracting fundamentalist groups.  The program will be open to Shi'ites, but is intended to cater to Sunnis.  There is some debate over whether it will be able to satisfy the needs of all Islamic backgrounds, or if there will even be employment opportunities for the Sunni theology.  Nevertheless, Kista Folkhögskola's rector, Abdulkader Habib, thinks religious authorities being educated in Sweden is a "positive development."