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During Easter vigil at St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI received Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born Italian journalist, into the Catholic Church. Allam, a non-practicing Muslim, had become a critic of suicide bombers and a defender of Israel; most recently he decided that Islam was "inherent[ly] ... violent and historically conflictive." Italian journalists, all of whom seem to know Allam and have an opinion of him, played it as a sensation. The Pope, however, is playing ...