In email correspondence. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded to our earlier discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar since I was working on a paper on my correspondence with late Dutch scholar Dr. Hans Jansen (1942-2015).  Jansen argued that the code of ‘Umar and similar medieval codes are used in extremist circles to justify Christian persecution. For Jansen this is the true face of Islam. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded that “the pact of ʿUmar is not authentic.”