CNN and "fundamentalism"

CNN (and TNT) have been plugging this upcoming series, "God's Warriors," hosted by Christiane Amanpour.  I admit it:  I'm not optimistic, and anticipate a series of badly misplaced equivalency arguments (i.e., "sure, there are the Islamists, but what about the home-schooling evangelicals?"). 

Jim Lindgren has a good post, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, about the demographics of "fundamentalists" and other things.  And, he has links to lots of other commentary about the series.

Thinking about the series, and these posts, I find myself thinking also about the Dutch bishop's recent suggestion that Catholics call God "Allah" (a suggestion that Robert Miller firmly declines here) and also Mark Lilla's recent NYT Mag article, "The Politics of God."  One thought I come away from all this with:  Distinctions must be drawn -- it is important that they be drawn, and those who fail to draw them err badly -- but are too often not being drawn (see, e.g., Andrew Sullivan's tired "Christianist" riff, or "American Theocracy", or "American Fascists", or . . . ):  The GOP is not the Taliban; Rick Santorum is not Sayyid Qutb; our "Red v. Blue" is not the Thirty Years' War; Operation Rescue is not Al-Qaeda; regulating partial-birth-abortion is not stoning unveiled women; etc.