Retraction...sorta

So after telling several people about the new Secretary General's religious preference, I looked back on wikipedia to confirm the news.  Today, the parts about his religious affiliation are gone.  I looked through the discussion on why they were removed.  The information came from only one source, a website called AsiaWeek.  AsiaWeek sounds like a credible source, but it reports news about religion in Asia.  So there is no guarantee that they have high journalistic standards.  I did find one other article making the same claim.  But that was on a site that's supposed to give news on Britons in Israel.  While that article cited most of its facts, there was no source for the religious affiliation claim.  However, the Briton-Israel site used very similar wording to the original AsiaWeek article, so I'm thinking that is the initial source.

So until further clarification hits legitimate news sources, I guess we shouldn't rely upon this information.  Sorry about the confusion.

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