The man made no mention of Christian or Jewish fundamentalism, or the Hindu supremacy marching through India, or the weaponized secularism driving modern French nativism, treating the terms “fundamentalism,” “extremism,” and their modern cousin, “terrorism,” as inherent and exclusive to Islam. In fact, these descriptors were not only exclusive to Islam, but synonymous with it.

QUESTION: This claims a bias in how extremism is labeled. Worth investigating whether similar descriptors are applied to other religious or nationalist movements.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 362