{"id":52208,"date":"2013-03-25T21:16:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/03\/popes-islam-overtures-force-muslim-born-convert-to-quits-church\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:16:20","slug":"popes-islam-overtures-force-muslim-born-convert-to-quits-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/03\/25\/popes-islam-overtures-force-muslim-born-convert-to-quits-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s Islam overtures force Muslim-born convert to quits Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><span class=\"c14\">VATICAN CITY (AFP) \u2013 A Muslim-born journalist whose 2008 baptism by Pope Benedict XVI made him Italy\u2019s most famous convert announced Monday he was leaving the Catholic Church over the new pontiff\u2019s overtures to Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"d_dep_texte_content\" readability=\"76\">\n<p>Magdi Allam, a former deputy editor of leading daily Corriere della Sera who was born in Egypt, voiced his irritation over what he described as the \u201cpapolatry\u201d surrounding the onset of Pope Francis\u2019 pontificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy conversion to catholicism, by the hand of Benedict XVI on the eve of Easter on March 22, 2008, came to an end when his pontificate did,\u201d he wrote in Il Giornale newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced that Islam is an intrinsically violent ideology,\u201d Allam wrote, predicting that \u201cEurope will end up under Islam\u2019s boot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis, who was elected earlier this month, said he wanted to intensify the dialogue with other religions, including Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe legitimisation of Islam as a true religion, of Allah as a true God, of Mohammed as a true Prophet, of the Koran as a holy scripture and of mosques as places of worship\u2026 have driven me away from the Church,\u201d Allam wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Allam also said he disagreed with the church\u2019s insistence on priestly celibacy, sexual abstinence outside of marriage and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Allam\u2019s views on Islam and the pope\u2019s decision to conduct the baptism himself had earned the Vatican scathing criticism at the time, forcing the Holy See to distance itself from the journalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond \u2026 the phenomenon of extremists and Islamist terrorism at the global level, the root of evil is inherent to a physiologically violent and historically conflictual Islam,\u201d Allam wrote the day after his baptism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY (AFP) \u2013 A Muslim-born journalist whose 2008 baptism by Pope Benedict XVI made him Italy\u2019s most famous convert announced Monday he was leaving the Catholic Church over the new pontiff\u2019s overtures to Islam. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}