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Islamophobia, n. Brit. |ɪzˌlamə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə|, U.S. |ɪsˌlɑməˈfoʊbiə|[see also Islam n.] [‹ Islamo- comb. form + -phobia comb. form.] Hatred or fear of Islam, esp. as a political force; hostility or prejudice towards Muslims.
1976Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 7 124 What makes the task difficult, perhaps impossible, for a non-Muslim is that he is compelled, under penalty of being accused of Islamophobia, to admire the Koran in its totality. 1985E. W. Said in Cultural Critique 1 99 Take the connection—explicity made by two of the authors I cite in Orientalism, Renan and Proust—between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. 1994Times 28 June 21/5, I suspect that Islamophobia, under the guise of fundamentalist scaremongering, is being deliberately promoted in the overseas media. 2005N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Feb. a9/1 Vandals daubed swastikas on an outside wall of the Grand Mosque of Paris... [The] director of the mosque, termed the attack ‘an intolerable act of Islamophobia’. |