Cenk Uygur to Fox’s Eric Bolling: Your ‘Holy War’ Would Only Help Terrorists

On his show Cashin’ In this past weekend, Fox News host Eric Bolling told Muslim extremists that if they want a “holy war” than the United States will give them one. Last night, The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur decided to tell Bolling why that would be playing directly in the terrorists’ hands.

“Really, Eric? Are you that much of a coward?” Uygur asked the Fox host. “You’re worried that guy in the middle of Syria is going to capture the White House?”

He explained to Bolling that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, or 23% of the population, and stressed that the U.S. should be focused on fighting terrorist groups like ISIS, not all Muslims.

“If you did a holy war, not just against Islamic radicals but against — that’s what a holy war is — against all Muslims, and if you notice in that clip he kept interchanging Islamic radicals with Islam, then you have given the terrorists the best gift they could possibly hope for,” Uygur said “You’re going to take their ragtag army and turn it into an army of 1.6 billion people.”

Watch video below, via The Young Turks:

And watch Bolling’s full segment below, via Fox News:

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