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HolyWars

In person: director Stephen Marshall

Sneak preview. Here's a seeming recipe for disaster: take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which man will be left standing? In HolyWars, Sundance-award-winning filmmaker Stephen Marshall pits the proverbial immovable object against the irresistible force. Khalid Kelly is an Irish convert to Islam who works to implement sharia law (stoning, veiled women, corporal punishment) in Britain. Aaron Taylor is an American conservative Christian whose organization takes both democracy and the gospel abroad as weapons in "the war between good and evil." Armed only with his camera and persistence, Marshall gradually earns his subjects' trust, probes their convictions and draws out their inner conflicts. Can fundamentalists change? evolve? find peace? But more immediately, as he follows Kelly into Pakistan, can Marshall avoid getting imprisoned or shot by the Taliban? (BM)

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