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Below is the 'New York Times' review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/television/21warr.html? ex=1345348800&en=947247068e448e68&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Television Review 'God's Warriors'
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Published: August 21, 2007

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, is more tour guide and history teacher than reporter in “CNN Presents: God’s Warriors,” and that makes this ambitious look at three flavors of religious fundamentalism less than it could be.

This three-part series, which begins tonight on CNN, is a fine primer on the emergence of strains of Judaism, Islam and Christianity that want to fuse politics and religion, and have shown a willingness to blow things up and kill people to do it. But too often Ms. Amanpour relies on talking heads rather than on actual representatives of these groups, and when she does get a live specimen she rarely bores in with hard, blunt questions. Maybe that’s by design; the point seems to be to describe rather than challenge. Still, given the waves these movements are making, it would be nice to hear their leaders talk about what specifically they have to offer the world.

Tonight’s opening installment, “God’s Jewish Warriors,” seems particularly timid, spending more time than necessary on clips of the Six-Day War and other familiar historical episodes. The warriors are Jews who have forcefully pushed settlements into areas even the Israeli government has placed off-limits, making political inroads at the same time. We’ve already heard quite a lot from these people; Ms. Amanpour’s most interesting contribution is a segment on the fund-raising in the United States that supports them.

“God’s Muslim Warriors,” tomorrow, is sharper, with Ms. Amanpour finally showing some aggressiveness, on the issue of women’s rights under radical Islam, brashly confronting leaders about things like stonings. But mostly she’s polite and lets her subjects stay in their comfort zones. The most compelling interview in the segment is not with a radical but with a former radical, Ed Husain. And it turns out he’s just hawking a book.

In Part 3, “God’s Christian Warriors,” on Thursday, the focus shifts to the United States and its electoral politics. The issues on these Christian warriors’ minds seem positively quaint next to the agendas of the people in Parts 1 and 2. The episode includes the final interview with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died in May.

GOD’S WARRIORS

CNN, tonight at 9, midnight and 3 a.m., Eastern time; 6, 9 and midnight, Pacific time.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent; Andy Segal, Jen Christensen and Steve Goldberg, contributors; Kathy Slobogin, managing editor; Mr. Segal, Michael Mocklar and Ken Shiffman, senior producers; Cliff Hackel and Dave Timko, directors, editors and producers; Brian Rokus, Ms. Christensen and Julie O’Neill, producers; Jody Gottlieb, executive director of CNN Productions

The following are youtube links to all parts of the program.

Jewish (10 parts)

Part # 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=kkKhPLAyDsM
Part # 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=g47YAGodTs0&mode=related&search=
Part # 3 http://youtube.com/watch?v=vN0S0FsE_Sw&mode=related&search=
Part # 4 http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPa9Q6YN9HU&mode=related&search=
Part # 5 http://youtube.com/watch?v=r1QKb7Sp40o&mode=related&search=
Part # 6 http://youtube.com/watch?v=oAAmhFkZvkE&mode=related&search=
Part # 7 http://youtube.com/watch?v=j9HnqC541l0&mode=related&search=
Part # 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=KdFir1MOVKg&mode=related&search=
Part # 9 http://youtube.com/watch?v=mIjUP7Xw_3Y&mode=related&search=
Part # 10 http://youtube.com/watch?v=EsgrG-84nBo&mode=related&search=


Muslims (11 parts)

Part # 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=xh7WkyaeRBg
Part # 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=snKtyovqWno&mode=related&search=
Part # 3 http://youtube.com/watch?v=NCEQLxKXUl0&mode=related&search=
Part # 4 http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Y0d4JfPQHU&mode=related&search=
Part # 5 http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mVwooXM9Iw&mode=related&search=
Part # 6 http://youtube.com/watch?v=29IdBQDmv00&mode=related&search=
Part # 7 http://youtube.com/watch?v=aJ5MlkInAtc&mode=related&search=
Part # 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Lzy6pGkEqo&mode=related&search=
Part # 9 http://youtube.com/watch?v=KgCwH6VqmRU&mode=related&search=
Part # 10 http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBmmpM9t75w&mode=related&search=
Part # 11 http://youtube.com/watch?v=9igkCXGEFoI&mode=related&search=

Christians (11 parts)

Part # 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=orG59apfX9I&mode=related&search=
Part # 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=uZjFs7ybny4&mode=related&search=
Part # 3 http://youtube.com/watch?v=5IuGgfEqpIE&mode=related&search=
Part # 4 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vc-jlPEP0Dg&mode=related&search=
Part # 5 http://youtube.com/watch?v=1mz3bUIlzOc&mode=related&search=
Part # 6 http://youtube.com/watch?v=lguc7MVV0C0&mode=related&search=
Part # 7 http://youtube.com/watch?v=xU_tHCclmb8&mode=related&search=
Part # 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=iq3hJE2bBSg&mode=related&search=
Part # 9 http://youtube.com/watch?v=cNkAFOx5KUI&mode=related&search=
Part # 10 http://youtube.com/watch?v=FaDxUs4-52s&mode=related&search=
Part # 11 http://youtube.com/watch?v=bvgNOmI4Yqs&mode=related&search=

Extremists in 3 faiths

Extremists in 3 faiths share views
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/112439.htm
Friday, June 15, 2007 ,NEW YORK, Reuters


Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of "good" and "evil" and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people to extremism, according to a report obtained by Reuters.

It said extremists from each of the three faiths often have tangible grievances -- social, economic or political -- but they invoke religion to recruit followers and to justify breaking the law, including killing civilians and members of their own faith.

The report was commissioned by security think tank EastWest Institute ahead of a conference on Thursday in New York titled "Towards a Common Response: New Thinking Against Violent Extremism and Radicalization." The report will be updated and published after the conference.

The authors compared ideologies, recruitment tactics and responses to violent religious extremists in three places -- Muslims in Britain, Jews in Israel and Christians in the United States.

"What is striking ... is the similarity of the worldview and the rationale for violence," the report said.

It said that while Muslims were often perceived by the West as "the principal perpetrators of terrorist activity," there are violent extremists of other faiths. Always focusing on Muslim extremists alienates mainstream Muslims, it said.

The report said it was important to examine the root causes of violence by those of different faiths, without prejudice.

"It is, in each situation, a case of 'us' versus 'them,'" it said. "That God did not intend for civilization to take its current shape; and that the state had failed the righteous and genuine members of that nation, and therefore God's law supersedes man's law."

This worldview was common to ultranationalist Jews, like Yigal Amir, who killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, to U.S. groups like Christian Identity, which is linked to white supremacist groups, and to other Christian groups that attacked abortion providers, it said.

"Extremists should never be dismissed simply as evil," said the report. "Trying to engage in a competition with religious extremists over who can offer a simpler answer to complex problems will be a losing proposition every time."

Harvard University lecturer Jessica Stern, the conference's keynote speaker, spent five years interviewing extremists for her 2003 book "Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill."

She said it was dangerous for U.S. President George W. Bush to use terms such as "crusade" or "ridding the world of evil."

"It really is falling into the same trap that these terrorists fall into, black and white thinking," Stern told Reuters on Wednesday. "It's very exciting to extremists to hear an American president talking that way."