Monkeybot

Yeah, it's probably more prudent to not generalize; however I was remembering Jerry Falwell's comment a few years back where he claimed that the Anti-Christ would be a Jew. Or this quote from Pat Robertson:

Granted, he doesn't mention Jews explicitly, but I don't think it's unreasonable to think that if he feels this way about other Christians, he probably doesn't think too highly of non-Xians.

However, he also mentions at one point that we need a return to "Judeo-Christian" values. In this respect, you're right in saying that there's a weird relationship going on...

Henrietta

Falwell especially has a strange relationship to Jews and Isreal. I read a book by a journalist who went on some of Falwell's tours of the Holy Land. This is not from that author but here's a site explaining roughly that relationship: <a href="http://www.iraqwar.org/fundamentalists.htm" target="_blank">dispensationalists</a> Isreal plays a role in their much desired end of the world. Many are hoping 'someone' will blow up the mosque that sits on the site where they believe the temple has to be rebuilt before we can have our end of the world. Some fundamentalists even finance the efforts to do this. It really would be the end of the world for that region if someone ever succeeded in blowing up the mosque. Falwell's and other fundamentalists' chumminess with the Jews does not extent past needing them in this scenario. The Jews' reward, if they refuse to convert in the end, will be everlasting torture, or so the dispensationalists believe. So much for friendship. So groups can work together while under the surface they really despise the other enough to be looking forward to their torture.

Don the point of your clips is well taken. I think that if there ever is any real coming together it would have to be with muslims who are outside of the Islamic countries. Maybe in the US. After all people are good at picking and choosing which part of their holy book to obey and which to ignore if they see it as being to their advantage. I'm not arguing that a merger would happen, just contemplating the idea.