Let's define Fundamentalism first.  For our purposes, we say that Fundamentalists believe that some things are fundamentally true.

The word, fundamentalist was coined by two different denominations and meant something very distinct until the news media of liberalism began to radically distort the use of the word, applying it to violent Muslim groups as well as applying it to all Christians who believe the Bible is the Word of God.  The political motivation of this word redefinition is obvious or should be obvious to everyone.

For relatively intelligent people to misuse a word like fundamentalist in this way would defy logic except if you understand the hate that liberal relativists have for fundamentalist Christians. The fact that all the media elitists began to misuse the word, fundamentalist, at the same moment in time is nothing short of amazing.  It was as if some media overlord had directed them.  It was as if there were some sort of a liberal conspiracy and all the information sources were required to conform.  There could be another explanation, but it would be hard to think of one.  There is an obvious gain to the liberal news media in being able to bash Christians by associating them with violent Muslim groups. By applying the same name to both groups, they were able to use a Neurolinguistic Programming method to affect the opinion of many people without anyone realizing that they had been persuaded to change their opinions.