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{weblog_name} - How To Embrace Islam
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We in the media who report on religious leaders spend a lot of time on conflict – after all, it excites people, which creates reader interest (not to mention insane letters to the editor).  But we don’t spend enough time noting those important and influential theologians who offer a different political view. So I was intrigued to read yesterday that Syria’s foremost Muslim leader had declared that Islam commands its followers to “protect Judaism.” “If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic,” Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus, according to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. He added, “If Mohammed had commanded us to kill people, I would have told him he was not a prophet.”… read more