CHIENG: For thousands of years, Jews, Christians and Muslims
have been fighting about whose old book is right
about god stuff. They're like
the Jersey Housewives of the Middle East.
And now, 1,400 years of religious warfare
is coming to America.
A trinity of faiths, blending friendship
between Christians, Jews and Muslims.
CHIENG: The tri-faith initiative in Omaha, Nebraska,
is opening a synagogue, a church and a mosque
in the same location.
I sat down with the rabbi, the reverend
and the Muslim guy in charge
to find out what the hell they were thinking.
We fundamentally think that peace is possible
and we feel that this can be, also, a model for others.
Don't you think it's pretty arrogant to fly in the face
of 1,400 years of hating each other?
Religions do not teach us to hate,
religions teach us to love.
Does that make you want to kill him?
Actually, hug him.
CHIENG: Listen to these guys.
They were one step away from jihading a crusade
all over each other.
Doesn't anyone in Omaha see how dangerous this is?
Innocent people will die.
CHIENG: Thank you. This is Mark Christian.
He's president of the Global Faith Institute.
He used to be a Muslim
and you'll never guess what religion
Mark Christian converted to.
I was a Sunni Muslim and now I'm a follower of Christ.
I'm a kind of a two-faithed kind of person.
You're two-faced, yeah.
Uh, not two-faced. Two-faithed.
Right, you got two different personalities.
Faith, not faced.
-Two faces. -Two... faith.
CHIENG: After a another half hour of pronunciation lessons,
we finally got down to the really scary (bleep).
Muslims and Christians and Jews
do not agree on their ideology whatsoever.
Those radical Muslims and jihadists
will find many reasons to go and kill innocent people
in the Tri-Faith Initiative.
CHIENG: See? Terrorists hate cooperation.
When ISIS hears about this, they're gonna drop everything
and head straight for Omaha, if they can find it.
Guys, look, I know this seems like a good idea.
It's like a KFC mixed with Taco Bell and a Pizza Hut--
fantastic on paper, but it's gonna end up
slowly killing all of us.
The three of us and the face we represent
are-are kind of like three guys who have fallen in love
with the same woman, but this woman's love
is so much greater and vaster than our own
that she can have an integral relationship
with each one of us.
Right, foursome, got it.
No... Well... No. And...
And there's a lot of fun to be had having a foursome.
There's a lot of fun that has... that-that takes place
when three great faiths come together
and acknowledge they worship the same god.
Come together, yeah.
He's gonna be pretty pissed
when he realizes why we just high-fived.
So these are all just super progressive fun-loving dudes
who want to party down with the weird ghost thing
they all believe in.
But think of the practicality--
it's like a religious turducken.
How is this even gonna work?
How are you gonna fit a church into a mosque
into a synagogue?
They have three separate buildings,
and then another fourth building where they gonna have
the Easter egg hunt and all kind of kumbaya that they usually do.
So the buildings are gonna be separate?
Each of the faith communities are-are existing
in separate facilities.
This is not the taco and, uh, donut shop
that you created before.
CHIENG: So what's the big deal?
Globally, two out of three Muslims
wants to overthrow the government
and apply Sharia law
and live under the leadership of Islamic State.
CHIENG: I knew it.
I had to warn them about their scary Muslim guy.
I'm sorry, can you just cover your ears for just one second?
Thank you. Listen, guys,
two out of every three Muslim wants to impose
Sharia law on the entire world.
Well, that's ridiculous, first of all,
and second of all, fundamentalists of all stripes
want to impose their, uh, views on the whole world.
Who told you, uh, this lie?
I'm sorry, can I just stop you guys?
Listen, sir, you're being really aggressive right now
and I just need you to take it down a few notches.
Okay, as many notches as you like.
CHIENG: These guys talk a big game about tolerance.
But what happens if Mark Christian is right?
What if they do get attacked?
We will stand together
and defend ourselves
and support each other.
With your guns and bombs.
We don't need any guns. We have ideas.
I'm not gonna lie.
You're scaring the (bleep) out of me right now.
I don't mean to.
CHIENG: They just wouldn't give up.
There was only one thing
that could take down the Tri-Faith Initiative.
Every relationship I've ever had has been destroyed
by trying to what the hell to watch on Netflix.
-AZRIEL: Mad Men. -ELNES: Big Night. -MOHIUDDIN: Homeland.
CHIENG: As I expected, they were falling apart.
I used to like Girls and then I gave up on HBO.
CHIENG: There was no way they could...
-Portlandia? -Yeah, okay. -Okay. Yeah.
CHIENG: (bleep), that was way easier than I thought.
I guess if a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim
can walk into a bar and it's not a joke
and they don't kill each other,
maybe there is hope for peace in the Middle East.
Of America.