google news - A GROUP of Muslim scholars have written an open letter to the Pope saying they accept his apology for his remarks on Islam.
The letter will be delivered to a Vatican envoy in the hope of engaging Pope Benedict in a dialogue to counter prejudice against Islam.
The leading clerics behind the letter were Sheik Habib Ali, of the Taba Institute in the United Arab Emirates, and Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, the special adviser to Jordan's King Abdullah II.
Last month, the Pope gave a lecture in which he quoted a medieval text that said the Muslim faith contained "things only evil and inhuman".