Really??? If you want to call Iran, an Islamic "Republic" of 65 million people, the largest Shia country in the Islamic world the "exception," that's just being silly. No.. in Iran, there are thousands of Falwells in positions of power. The law is Sharia.

Iran is the rule, definitely not the exception.

Sorry but population wise and area wise Iran an exception when compared to all the other 'Islamic' countries and populations around the globe...

I'm sure you (and Georgie) would love to believe that Iran is representative of all Islamic countries, but it isn't by a long shot - it's representative of the fundamentalist impact on Shi'a Islam that saw the Ulema class deposed in favour of a "common man" approach to understanding the Qu'ran...

... and some of America's Christian extremists are still blowing stuff up as well (Christian Identity and Christian Patriots) as well as supporting extremists abroad.

One thing to keep in mind that many of the car bombing and funeral/service attack techniques where borrowed directly from "Christian" terror groups (IRA and UVF respectfully), although thankfully it doesn't appear that Al Queda has borrowed the "force" suicide bombing/proxy bombing technique used by the IRA yet...

Falwell issued a Fatwa against homosexuals? Somehow I missed this. What did he say?

Oh he gave a sermon about how the "gays" where to blame for 9/11 and God's wrath against society and all that, and that the the "gays" must be "purged" from a "Christian" American etc.

I'll look it up. Thanks.