Excellent discussion on ABC's This Week: HOLY WAR.

[Atman]

Among the panelists are Christian extremist Franklin Graham facing off with a Muslim extremist -- with both espousing the exact same position regarding the ultimate purpose of their religions: world domination. Fascinating stuff. Half over now, but still worth tuning in.

Edited to fix crazy auto-corrected typo.

[sonomak]

1. They should duke it out in the parking lot

and do the world a favor

[Bigmack]

13. ... with shovels. I'd pay to see that! nt

[chimpymustgo]

2. It is fascinating but scary - interesting that she invited extremists on both sides.

Franklin Graham may have misstated that Pew poll (that 1 in 4 young men leaving a mosque said suicide bombing is okay). This is all I could find from 2007:

Radicalism
Suicide bombing:

Age 18-29 30+
Justified 15 6
Not Justified 80 85
DK/Refused 5 9


http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:z02uKBXj1OEJ:pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf+pew+research+poll+on+Muslim+men&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgNHTesnwNfo_KO_FwUDrZ-IAAqBif44Ei0fE5-oZ2FUOfkM_iVXU8KHGSuv-NfWeRt63ZQWw4u5spaqDcs5IgErOA4SS9L0ILujo_ANQGJuQEDBJ1G8WkX4Rn18GMctFH7iH6d&sig=AHIEtbRVT1dWo7mhOHsSLGIZMWhet8AhjA

[Fuzz]

3. My jaw is on my chest at some of what is being yelled back and forth.

Fucking idiots.

[johnfunk]

4. Amanpour doing more in 1 hour to expose Idiot-American bigots...

... than the rest of the media combined since Sept. 11, 2001. The reactionaries on the board of ABC's parent company Disney will NOT be pleased.

[cilla4progress]

5. It's what I've been saying --

the extremists in both religions have more in common with each other, than each do with their sane fellow countrypersons! Let THEM go live in Afghanistan together! They read their religious books literally, interpret them fundamentally, don't really know what's in them, use them to control their followers, and lie to their followers to keep them in the dark about what their religions really stand for: compassion, tolerance, love.

[Angry Dragon]

9. The thing is that "their" religion does not stand for those things

Their god is a god of fear and wrath......
a god that asks you to kill your son to prove
that you love your god more.......

[cilla4progress]

11. Right...

you mean our Old Testament -- the basis of our Judeo Christian nation (supposedly)?

[G_j]

6. watching now

disturbing stuff

[G_j]

7. kick

[Kievan Rus]

8. All that seperates Dominionists from the Taliban is 10,000 miles

[Dawson Leery]

10. The born-agains have much in common with the Islamic fundamentalists.

[cilla4progress]

12. Eggs-ZACKLY!