My Zen Arcade

This is actually unfortunate. Forget the fact that a number of people might just go nuts (I’m thinking thats a small number…they probably already went nuts when he married a catholic in the first place). Now this man’s opinions on Islamic extremism will carry zero weight with, well, Muslims.
Imagine the reverse. Like, maybe that Archbishop converting to Islam…

lgf: Pope Baptizes Muslim, Seething Expected

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.

An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book “Long Live Israel.”