WASHINGTON — The rhythmic clapping began the minute Amr Khaled stepped into the packed ballroom. Surrounded by security guards, the Egyptian preacher had to weave his way through the crowd — men both clean-shaven and bearded, women both fashionably coifed and dressed in conservative Islamic dress — that had come from up and down the East Coast to hear him. Two massive screens projected his image to those in the back.
Islamic televangelist preaches compromise, coexistence
Friday, September 21, 2007 | 1:00 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:15 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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