Go tell it to Assad: Syrian Mufti calls for protecting Jews

There's a lot of talk around the blogosphere about a statement made by Syrian Grand Mufti Ahmed Hassoun to a group of American academics on Tuesday. "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, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.Hassoun,