 Dr. Ahmed Farouk Musa, an academician at Monash University, considered the Hilali-Khan translation as being a major cause of extremism and a work of propaganda distributed by Saudi religious authorities with money from its oil-rich government.Similarly, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, head of Bethesda's Minaret of Freedom Institute, has claimed that the translation is a Wahhabi rendering of the Quran and is not accepted by Muslims in the US.A number of academics have also criticized the Hilali-Khan translation on stylistic and linguistic grounds.