Officials from Muslim countries welcomed October 13, 2002 an apology from conservative U.S. preacher Jerry Falwell for calling the Prophet Mohammad a 'terrorist,' and they urged that debate on Islam be more informed. Falwell is seen on the set of CNN's 'L
"I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, (to decide) that he was a violent man, a man of war," Jerry Falwell said in a CBS interview last week. Now, Mohsen Shabestari, a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has fired back some rhetoric of his own, proclaiming, "The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community."
The upset and shaken conservative Baptist minister apologized Saturday:
"I sincerely apologize that certain statements of mine made during an interview for the September 30 edition of CBS's "60 Minutes" were hurtful to the feelings of many Muslims," he said from Lynchburg, Virginia. "I intended no disrespect to any sincere, law abiding Muslim."
Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town Tabriz, said Falwell is a "mercenary and must be...
