Baptism is a hostile act


	Baptism is a hostile act

willhelm

3-25-2008 4:22 PM

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"The whole spectacle... provokes genuine questions about the motives, intentions and plans of some of the pope's advisers on Islam," Nayed, who is director of the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, said in a statement."

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