America's war with Islamic fanaticism didn't start on 9/11

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The term "Christian fundamentalist" is misleading. Some estimates say there are 30 million Christian fundamentalists in the U.S.... Simply because they believe things such as homosexuality being a sin, that the Bible is completely accurate, that Jesus was born to a virgin and performed miracles, does not align them with the islamic fundamentalists. By some definitions, I could be a Christian fundamentalist, and many people would term Southern Baptists as such. Many use the term in place of evangelical christian. Islamic fundamentalism is associated with terrorism, while Christian fundamentalism should not be. The huge majority of Christian fundamentalists are not supportive of any acts of terror, be it towards abortion clinics, gay bars, etc...Now, if you're saying that Christian fundamentalists are dangerous because you're trying to play thought police, thats a different matter, but to put them on par with people who openly desire to kill people associated with western or jewish culture is simply ridiculous.

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"Fundamentalism" is not actually a term muslims use to self-identify or Islamic scholars use in conjunction with ANY muslims since the concept of "fundamentalism" is, in fact, a Christian one, started by organizations that wanted to return to the fundamentals of the Christian faith and emphasize the infallibility of the Bible after the Christian church had undergone many, many schisms creating the many sects and denominations we have today.

Applying it to Islam is misleading because there are only two major muslim sects, neither of which have made the strong divergence from their roots that some Christian sects have.

Acts of extremism are NOT fundamentalism and it is misleading to label them as such.