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Sandro Magister has a fascinating article in www.chiesa today . The commentary is on the upcoming meeting between the Vatican and over 130 prominent Muslim authors. The article is highly enlightening. Please check the URL above to read it in full. Here is a snippet underlining an apparent difference in emphasis between the two Faiths which has been evident in the responses on what should be discussed: Returning to Benedict XVI, the dialogue he wants with Islam is still as he explained it in a passage of his pre-Christmas address to the Roman curia on December 22, 2006: "In a dialogue to be intensified with Islam, we must bear in mind the fact that the Muslim world today is finding itself faced with an urgent task. This task is very similar to the one that has been imposed upon Christians since the Enlightenment, and to which the Second Vatican Council, as the fruit of long and difficult research, found real solutions for the Catholic Church. "It is a question of the