If You Haven't Read It...You Should

Check out TalkLeft's comment on fundamentalism, which was inspired by activist-actor Tim Robbins address to protesters of the War on Iraq...

Even if you don't like Tim Robbins, as an actor, you might find the article interesting. Here's a taste:

We thought he was going somewhere else after the quoted paragraph. And since he didn't really go there, we will. We keep hearing people discuss the "religious right" and the "Christian right." There is nothing religious or holy or even Christian about these groups' political beliefs. By using these terms to refer to them, we endow them with a legitimacy to which they are not entitled. We would like to prevent them from connecting their radical political beliefs to religion.

Several years ago, we joined with other liberal groups in requesting people to stop referring to ultra-right wing fundamentalists as the Christian Right or Religious Right, and begin calling them what what they really are: "The Radical Right."

And they balance that with this:

As to the fundamentalists who call themselves Islamic, we suggest we refrain from describing them as "Muslim" or "Islamic" and simply call them what they are, "radical fundamentalists."

It would be interesting to hear Radical Right leader Jerry Falwell's response...