He was arrested in 2003 by the Saudi Arabian government after "preaching to his followers to rise up against the infidels" and has since been held without charge as a political prisoner.
[3] He was arrested in 1994 after writing a poem deriding the "loose morals" of the wife of Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Al-Fahd and other clerics associated with this school, such as Ali al-Khudair and Sulaiman Al-Alwan, became influential among jihadists.
[citation needed] They condemned the actions of the Saudi state and provided backing from the Quran for their positions.
[4] He declared that any Muslim who aided the United States war effort in any manner in Afghanistan or Iraq was an infidel.