[HEY4QDEMS]

But a conservative Islamist is not the same as a Republican

I agree 100%, secondly, I consider myself a conservative Christian but not a Republican.

I have never associated Conservatism with Republicanism. GWB is a good example, he is a Republican, but no one can honestly call him conservative.

[SittinYonder]

is one in the same with a fundamentalist Islamist

I consider myself a conservative Christian

Are you a fundamentalist Christian? Had CNN used this term rather than conservative, they would have been damned for trying to link fundamentalist Islam with fundamentalist Christianity.

Sometimes a word is just a word and there is no intent behind it. LOL ... We should rather applaud CNN for bothering to announce the guy was an Ismalist at all. Usually that's the sort of inflammatory information they don't care to share with us easily exciteable viewers.