Writing in London?s al-Hayat newspaper, Dr. Walid A. Fatihi, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, claims that Christian-Jewish relations in the United States are worsening and this can be attributed to ?the openness towards Islam and the beginning of an Islamic-Christian dialogue.? In fact, Fatihi insists, ?Despite the attacks of distortion coordinated by the Zionist lobby, to which it has recruited many of the influential media, there are initial signs that the intensive campaign of education about Islam has begun to bear fruit. For example, the rate of converts to Islam since September 11 has doubled...? Fearing the ?outcome of the Islamic-Christian dialogue through the churches, the mosques, and the universities,? according to Fatihi, ?the Jewish institutions have begun to contact Muslim institutions and have called on us to hold dialogues with them and cooperate [with them]? the Muslim community in the U.S. in general, and in Boston in particular, has begun to trouble the Zionist lobby.?



Yet this will not avail the Jews, according to Dr. Fatihi, for ?one day their covenant with the [American] people will be cut off.? The Harvard lecturer places this ultimate result of the Islamic-Christian dialogue in the context of Islamic belief about the Jews: ?The words of the Koran on this matter are true: ?They will be humiliated wherever they are found, unless they are protected under a covenant with Allah, or a covenant with another people. They have incurred Allah's wrath and they have been afflicted with misery. That is because they continuously rejected the Signs of Allah and were after slaying the Prophets without just cause, and this resulted from their disobedience and their habit of transgression.??