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Published March 23, 2008, 12:00 AM

Pope baptizes Italy’s most prominent Muslim

VATICAN CITY — Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism on Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.

By: By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

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