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This is how the quote is presented in the article :

On an highly emotional spiritual level there has been a great common-ground meeting place between Rome and Mecca in the town of Fatima in Portugal. To quote a Catholic news organization, “Our Lady of Fatima is really Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Mohammed On October 23, 1995, Iranian television began running stories that the apparitions in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 were religious phenomena of Muslim origin.”17

This is how the quote appeared in the original article

A Christian knight saved a young girl named Fatma (Fatima) from the dangers of the pitched battle. Later she converted to Christianity and married the knight, only to die shortly afterwards. In grief, the knight became a monk and the town was renamed Fatima in her honor. According to Iranian Television, the woman who appeared to the three shepherd children in 1917 was not the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, but Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam. Her message was reported to be "I am Fatima, daughter of the Prophet of Islam."

Seems pretty disingenuous to me.....or a deliberate misrepresentation of the quote. The context is completely misrepresented. If the author is writing in truth, why such deception?

dangus: The authors lied. They didn’t merely come to contentious conclusions, they outlied lied. Yet knowing this, you defended them as if they were telling the truth.

mockingbyrd: Seems pretty disingenuous to me.....or a deliberate misrepresentation of the quote. The context is completely misrepresented. If the author is writing in truth, why such deception?

The exact quote - verbatim - appears at this link on Zenit. Note that the phrase isn't found in the article; instead, it's found at the top of the page, under the "ASIAN SYNOD day by day" banner, in Zenit's summary of articles for the day. I'll reproduce the summary here, since no one seems to have gone to the source itself, despite my providing a direct link back in post #9.

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May 13, 1998

ASIAN SYNOD
John Paul II Will Visit Asia to Sign Synod Document
The Trip Should Take Place in the Latter Half of Next Year

A First Answer in the Debate Over Inculturalization
Lebanese Bishop Béchara Rai, a participant in the assembly, speaks

FEATURE
Islam Co-opting Fatima
Iranian TV: Our Lady of Fatima is Really Fatima, Daughter of the Prophet Mohammed

SPECIAL REPORT
Asia: A Persecuted Church
Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Vietnam... Where Being a Christian Can Cost You Your Life