I agree with what you have said so far except this one  I have been with people of many religions and found their intellectuals are always secular in research eg Jehovahs witness are very very fundamentalist Christians  However their research about Islam is very secular as printed in their paper  Their conclusion is not secular ofcourse  Then you can read Christian Science Monitor which is also a very fundamentalist organizations paper  You can not point a finger on their secular research  Again their POV appears seperately  I am a staunch fundamentalist Muslim fundamentalist meaning sticking to fundamentals as foundation and building over it not sticking to fundamentals and destroy all construction over it  However I am certified in studies of Old Testament and the new Testaments and have done a lot of faith sharing to form my own knowledge about Jews and Christians not what the Mullah told me when I was a kid