Sandro Magister reports that the official Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, which already has two Jewish writers among its regular contributors, is about to give a voice to yet another Abrahamic religion:

For now, there is no Muslim among the columnists for the pope’s newspaper. But there will be soon. His name is Khaled Fouad Allam, an Italian citizen born in Algeria, and a professor at the University of Trieste. He is the author of books of significant depth on Islamic culture and the relationship between Islam and the Christian West.

That will facilitate interfaith dialogue, no doubt, though the new writer’s surname could lead to misunderstandings.