In a hypothetical Venn diagram, one circle representing extremist Christians and the other fundamentalist capitalists, the lens-shaped overlap contains Sam Brownback, the newly re-elected governor of Kansas.
As for fundamentalist Christian grievances with the school system – perceived as godless and unfriendly to their evangelical cause – Boston pointed out the "incredible mission field" that would be America's public school students.
Cole, for example, calls himself "a free speech fundamentalist", and Eisenberg believes "freedom of expression must be indivisible".
"The Ba'athists want to set up their own region, their own fundamentalist state," Osman said.
But after decades of such small victories, Boston said, having failed to remake public schools as "little fundamentalist academies", those extremist factions are now more interested in siphoning students into private Christian schools.
In Israel's case, it can benefit from cooperation with Iran, particularly as the region is under threat of growing extremism by fundamentalist Wahhabi fighters who despise Shiites and Jews alike.
When we hear today's politicians offering us a choice between liberal freedom and fundamentalist oppression, and triumphantly asking the rhetorical question, "Do you want women to be excluded from public life and deprived of their rights?
Ramze Obour, a fundamentalist weekly magazine, also took up the idea of Iran's negotiators as thespians, headlining a special report on the negotiations "The actors and their final mission".
As talks between Tehran and world powers near a 24 November deadline for an agreement over Iran's controversial nuclear programme, the fundamentalist media in Iran have ramped up their efforts to undermine negotiations and bolster their position on the domestic scene.
This was apparently a rebuttal to Alireza Zakani, a fundamentalist member of parliament from Tehran, who had warned the assembly of "a possibly tacit crossing of the red line that will undoubtedly lead to a defeat for Iran's national rights and a serious setback for our many nuclear achievements thus far".
Suspicions were focused on the Egyptian fundamentalist movement, Islamic Jihad, which earlier this week issued a threat against the US for what the group claimed was the CIA's role in helping extradite four of its activists from Albania to Cairo.
