Hypocrisy alert – Pope Benedict and Vatican

You can’t have a highly-publicized Easter weekend baptism and then expect you can magically distance yourself from your convert’s comments. If you were worried about that, you should have let Islamic convert Magdi Allam be baptized in Milan.

Allam, after the baptism, came out with this tidbit of in-your-face on Islam:

Explaining his decision to become a Christian, Allam wrote in Sunday's edition of daily Corriere della Sera, where he is deputy editor: “The root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictual.”

The Vatican then said, in essence, he’s our superstar, but pay no attention to him anyway:

“(Allam) has the right to express his own ideas,” chief Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

“They remain his personal opinions without in any way becoming the official expression of the positions of the Pope or the Holy See.”

Uhh, sure.

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