dffggggggggggghhjkklfdsfghjkkljkldggfIslamophobia is the fear, hatred of, or prejudice against the
Islamic religion or muslims generally, especially when seen as geopolitical force or the source of
terrorism.
The Oxford Dictionary defines "phobia" as, “irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group,”
And the dictionary of Mariam -Webster defines it as, "exaggerated fear." The combination of the
two defines "phobia" as, "irrational or exaggerated fear or dislike of a specified thing or group," and
therefore, Islamophobia as, "irrational or exaggerated fear or dislike of Islam.”
Introduction :
“Islamophobia” was originally coined by Muslims in the 1970s but gained little attention until the
1990s, when The Runnymede Trust, a British race relations think tank, formed its. Commission on.
British. Muslims and Islamophobia. (CBMI)
In 1991, the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Defined as, “ an outlook or
world-view involved an unfounded dread and dislike of Muslims, Which results in practices of
exclusion and discrimination,” While its 1997 report titled,Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All,
defined Islamophobia as, "unfounded hostility towards Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of
all or most Muslims."
The University of California at Berkeley’s Islamophobia research and documentation project.
Suggested. This working definition: “Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice fomented by the
existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power structure. It. Is directed. At a perceived or real
muslim. Threat through the maintenance and extension of existing disparities in economic, political,
social and cultural relations ‘civilisation rehab’ of the target communities( Muslim or otherwise).
Islamophobia reintroduces and reaffirms a global racial structure through which resource
distribution disparities are maintained and extended.
Islamophobia has existed since very long ago, meaning that Muslims were targets of negative
stereotyping and prejudice in all its forms and manifestations for quite some time. It is particularly
since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 that the phenomena has increased drastically at
global level, since when Islam was seen as a serious threat in certain parts of the world.
The rise of ISIS in the last few years has made the situation even worse, as Islam was then
portrayed as a religion of intrinsic violence whose disciples had a tendency to spread harm to the
followers of other religions. In many Western countries Islam is even considered as an ‘alien’
religion prone to bloodshed, a stigma that triggers intolerant attitudes amongst non-Muslims.
History and it’s Origin
One early use Citied as the term’s use is by the painter Alphonse Etienne Dinet and Algerian
Intellectual Sliman ben Ibrahim in their 1918 biography of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Writing in
French, they used term Islamophobia. Robin Richardson writes. That in the English version of. The
book the word. Was Not translated as “Islamophobia” but rather as “ feelings inimical to Islam”.
Dahou Ezzerhouni has citied several others uses in French as early as 1910, and from 1912 to 1918.
These early uses of the term did not, according to Christopher Allen, have the same meaning as in
contemporary usage, as in contemporary usage, as they described a fear of Islam by liberal Muslims
and Muslim feminists, rather than a fear or dislike/hatred of Muslims by non-Muslims. On the other
hand, Fernando Bravo López argues that Dinet and Ibn Slimes' use of the term was as a criticism of
overly hostile attitudes to Islam by a Belgian orientalist, Henri Laminas, whose project they saw as
a "'pseudo-scientific crusade in the hope of bringing Islam down once and for all.'" He also notes
that an early definition of Islamophobia appears in the 1910 Ph.D. thesis of Alain Quelling, a
French colonial bureaucrat:
For some, the Muslim is the natural and irreconcilable enemy of the Christian and the European;
Islam is the negation of civilisation, and barbarism, bad faith and cruelty are the best one can expect
from the Mohammedan.
Furthermore, he notes that Quellien's work draws heavily on the work of the French colonial
department's 1902–06 administrator, who published a work in 1906, which to a great extent
mirrors John Esposito's The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?.
The first recorded use of the term in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in
1923 in an article in The Journal of Theological Studies. The term entered into common usage with
the publication of the Runnymede Trust's report in 1997. "Kofi Annan asserted at a 2004 conference
entitled "Confronting Islamophobia" that the word Islamophobia had to be coined in order to "take
account of increasingly widespread bigotry”.
At the end of the. 1970s, Iranian fundamentalists invented the term “islamophobia” formed in.
Analogy to “Xenophobia”.The. aim of this word. Was to. Declare Islam inviolate. Whoever crosses
this border is deemed a racist. This term, which. Is worthy of totalitarian propaganda, is belief
system, a belief system or its faithful adherents around the world.
But. Confession. Has no more in common. With. Race then it has with secular. Ideology. Muslims.,
like Christians, come. From the Arab World, Africa Asia and Europe, Just as Marxists, Liberals and
anarchists come or Came From all over. In a democracy, no one is. Obliged to like religion., and
until proved otherwise, they have the right to. Regard it as retrograde and deceptive. Whether you
find it legitimate or absurd that some people regard Islam with suspicion-as they once did
Catholicism-and. Reject its aggressive proselytism and claim to total truth- this. Has nothing to do
with racism.
Are non-Muslims’ fear or dislike of Islam “irrational”or
“exaggerated”?
Muhammad killed thousands of non-Muslims (Religion of Peace), his Quran tells Muslims to
"kill" non-Muslims (No Compulsion in Religion), and Muslims are killing non-Muslims
indiscriminately around the world, including in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Ayodhya) USA (Boston,
Orlando, San Bernardino), UK (London, Manchester), France (Paris, Nice), Belgium (Brussels),
Spain (Madrid), Germany (Berlin), Russia (Beslan, Saint Petersburg), Indonesia (Bali)
