Send a trackback or leave a comment and ask yourself why the Pope himself is performing this particular baptism?

Italy’s most prominent Muslim commentator, a journalist with iconoclastic views such as support for Israel, converted to Roman Catholicism Saturday when the pope baptized him at an Easter service.

As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Magdi Allam’s head and said a brief prayer in Latin.

[…..]

Vatican television zoomed in on Allam, who sat in the front row of the basilica along with six other candidates for baptism.

An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Allam often writes on Muslim and Arab affairs and has infuriated some Muslims with his criticism of extremism and support for the Jewish state.

(emphasis mine)

The bunker calls photo-op, and wonders how long it will take the URQ to turn this non-practicing Muslim into a “converted extremist who saw the light” …. on Easter week-end no less.