Cool item at CNN/AP:
Prominent Muslim becomes Catholic on Easter
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.
The deputy editor of the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Allam often writes on Muslim and Arab affairs.
He told the Il Giornale newspaper in a December interview that his criticism of Palestinian suicide bombings generated threats on his life in 2003, prompting the Italian government to provide him with a sizeable security detail.
That should provoke an interesting reaction... He may have been non-practicing but Islam says that once you join or are born into Islam, you can never leave and many people have been killed when they converted to Christianity -- you hear a couple stories/year coming out from Syria and Iran and there is no telling how many more don't make it over to the Western media... Here are two from these last two months thanks to the revealing Religion of Peace website -- they keep a running tally on Islamofascist attacks and have just logged their 10,000th since their start post 9/11.
3/22/2006 Ethiopia, Arisi Negellie -- Muslims gun down a father of seven in front of a Lutheran church. The victim was a convert from Islam.
2/5/2008 Bangladesh, Rangpur -- A convert to Christianity dies from burns suffered when a Muslim mob set fire to her house four weeks earlier.
