"America's Pastor," 'fundamentally' wrong

Popular author and pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in the Saddleback Valley of California south of Los Angeles warns of a terrible danger lurking right around the corner in the 21st Century. Warren is quoted in an Interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Warren predicts that fundamentalism, of all varieties, will be "one of the big enemies of the 21st century." "Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, secular fundamentalism - they're all motivated by fear. Fear of each other."

I suppose Rick Warren reads a lot of Wikipedia. It is the first part of Wikipedia's definition of "fundamentalism" to which Warren appears to be appealing. Dr. R. Albert Mohler states the following on his Blog

Equating Christian fundamentalism with Muslim fundamentalism is both wrong and dishonest. This falls right into the hands of those who argue for a phenomenological definition of "religion" that includes "fundamentalism" as a general reference to any person or movement that refuses to accept the basic worldview of modernity. Adding the therapeutic category of "fear" just adds to the confusion. The motivation of fundamentalist Christianity is fear of Muslims and Jews?

As if there isn't enough confusion and misunderstanding about Christianity and faith in the world, now Warren is lumping in Muslim fundamentalists with those Christians who hold to the fundamentals of the Christian Faith. If you notice the Wikipedia definition and description of Christian Fundamentals references a work describing the fundamentals as "The Virgin Birth, the bodily Resurrection, sinless life of Christ" and things of this nature, in other words, the things that make Christianity distinct and true and, well, Christianity. I'm not sure what Warren is trying to accomplish by making such murky statements, but, as Mohler states, "This approach [certainly] doesn't help."