 Khashoggi briefly became the editor-in-chief of the Saudi Arabian daily "Al Watan" in 2003.After less than two months, he was dismissed in May 2003 by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Information because he had allowed a columnist to criticize the Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), who is considered an important figure of Wahhabism.This incident led to Khashoggi's reputation in the West as a liberal progressive.