The Cooling of Donald Trump's Islamo-Skepticism

THESE are confusing times for any student of global religion and geopolitics. This weekend around 2bn Christians mark the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This happens to be a year when the Christian West and the Christian East celebrate Easter on the same date. Some well-connected Catholic and Russian Orthodox news services disturbed some of their faithful readers by predicting that Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might stage a pre-election stunt by going to pray in Hagia Sophia, a building which began life as eastern Christendom's greatest temple. There was no sign of this actually happening; the mere suggestion that it might was enough to cause a frisson.