Edward64
03-23-2008, 08:25 AM
I confess, I am morbidly interested in this story due to all its implications.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/22/pope.muslim.convert.ap/index.html
Italy's most prominent Muslim commentator converted to Roman Catholicism on Saturday during the Vatican's Easter vigil service presided over by the pope.
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An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim, Magdi Allam has infuriated some fellow Muslims with his criticism of extremism and support for Israel.
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"I was never practicing," he was quoted as saying. "I never prayed five times a day, facing Mecca. I never fasted during Ramadan."
Yet he said he did make the pilgrimage to Mecca, as is required of all Muslims, with his deeply religious mother in 1991.
I wonder if Magdi will be assassinated due to his conversion.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/22/pope.muslim.convert.ap/index.html
Italy's most prominent Muslim commentator converted to Roman Catholicism on Saturday during the Vatican's Easter vigil service presided over by the pope.
...
An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim, Magdi Allam has infuriated some fellow Muslims with his criticism of extremism and support for Israel.
...
"I was never practicing," he was quoted as saying. "I never prayed five times a day, facing Mecca. I never fasted during Ramadan."
Yet he said he did make the pilgrimage to Mecca, as is required of all Muslims, with his deeply religious mother in 1991.
I wonder if Magdi will be assassinated due to his conversion.