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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1143660.html
Syria's Mufti: Islam Commands Us to Protect Judaism
(Ha'aretz) Syria's foremost Muslim leader declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect Judaism, according to Army Radio. "If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic," Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria and the leader of Syria's majority Sunni Muslim community, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.