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Top clerics accept Pope's apology
An open letter sent to Pope Benedict XVI from 38 top Muslim clerics from around the world accepts his apology over his remarks on Islam.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 October 14, 2006
Amman: An open letter sent to Pope Benedict XVI from 38 top Muslim clerics from around the world accepts his apology over his remarks on Islam.
The letter, shown on the website of Islamica magazine, will now be delivered to a Vatican representative in Amman in the hope of engaging the Pope in a discussion to counter prejudice against Islam, said the Jordanian-based editor Sohail Nakhooda.
Some of the clerics who signed the letter were Shaikh Habib Ali of the Taba Institute in Abu Dhabi and Prince Ghazi Bin Mohammad, the special adviser to Jordan's King Abdullah II.
Nakhooda said the 38 signatories to the letter declare that they accept the Pope's "personal expression of sorrow and assurance that the controversial quote did not reflect his personal opinion."
He added that the letter is "an attempt to engage with the Papacy on theological grounds in order to tackle wide-ranging misconceptions about Islam in the Western world."
Other who signed the letter include the grand muftis of Egypt, Russia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Oman, as well as the Iranian Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, and Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr of Georgetown University, Washington.
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