Islamophoben.
/ɪzˈlaməfəʊb/, U.S. /ɪˈslɑməˌfoʊb/; see also Islamo- comb. form. rare before late 20th cent.
A person who has an intense dislike or fear of Islam or Muslims.
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1877 Athenæum 13 Jan. 50/2 From these two books some Islamophobes may, perhaps, acquire a little idea of the moral sense of the professors of this religion.
1953 T. Minorsky tr. I. Y. Kratchkovsky Among Arabic Manuscripts vi. 154 Like many Christian Arabs Nōfal was a terrible Islamophobe.
1982 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 24 8 By the 1890s, the infusion of Islamic modernism into the Algerian médersas, the government-run higher Islamic schools, would help consecrate the position of respectability preserved..through the Islamophobe onslaught of the 1880s.
1996 Observer 29 Dec. 12/5 There are plenty of real examples of Islamic violence to satisfy the mildest Islamophobe.
2005 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 16 July It is sad that we have Islamaphobes in our midst in Tasmania who seek to damn a whole faith because of the activities of a tiny minority.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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