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Was this a response to anything I said (and not Checkmate)? + Did you mean Quran when you said Christian Bible above? If so, I'd agree that by its very nature the Quran is more instructional than the Bible. Funadmentalism to me is more about psychological condition - I'd say it could be applied to certain adherents of Christianity and Islam in equal measure.
My second paragraph was a response to the thread as a whole and I was thus agrreeing with Checkmate that it is erroneous to project Christian biblical literalism onto Islam.
Lets remember, "Islamic fundmanetalism" is a constructed trope: they are "fundamentalist" because they are "extreme", and they are "extreme" because they use violence. 99% of people who use the phrase use it in this sense IMO, rather than in the sense of literalism.