Islamophobia? No such thing!

Mr. Farah,

For the life of me, I don't know how this trend started of calling those who are in disagreement with certain groups or behaviors "phobic" or defaming us by suggesting we have a "phobia" against groups or behaviors we find unacceptable "Islamophobia or Islamophilia?"].

As all dictionaries define a phobia, it's "a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it." Note that the primary part of this definition is "irrational."

The fear the American people, and people in what we would traditionally call Western countries, have of the savagery and barbarism we see daily from Muslims across this globe is certainly NOT irrational. Hence there is no such word as "Islamophobia," so you and your colleagues need to stop defaming people by calling them "Islamophobic." We're not ! In fact, to not be very, very afraid of this evil, dangerous cult IS irrational. The same holds true when thoughtful people are labeled with hate terms like "homophobic" or "xenophobic" or countless other smears where the term phobia gets attached to the slander.

You would do your readers a great service by exposing the myth of what a phobia actually is and then stand your ground when you, too, are labeled as some kind of phobic wing nut.

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