He was recently profiled favorably in the NYT

"Sheikh Adil Al-Kalbani, the first black imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca lashed out at Shiite clerics, saying they are not entitled to join the Supreme Council of Ulema, the highest religious body in Saudi Arabia..."I think Shiite clerics are heretics," Sheikh Kalbani said Monday on the BBC Arabic satellite new channel." (thanks Olivia)