A well-reported Reuters story on the Saudi-backed centre for worldwide interfaith dialogue to be opened in Vienna this week:
Considered a reformer in the arch-conservative Saudi power structure, King Abdullah, believed to be about 89, has been slowly trying to get his kingdom used to the idea - foreign to many in the powerful religious establishment - of cooperating with other faiths.
The idea is daring in a country where many clerics have no experience of other faiths and preachers and teachers have traditionally denounced non-Muslims as infidels.
The idea that Saudi Arabia would somehow promote tolerance and fight extremism among its population by opening this center in Europe is absurd.