Muslim true/false ["Islamophobia" causing terror]

How much do Americans know about the views and beliefs of Muslims around the world?

Enough to know that Al Reuters and other wire services lumped all muslims together when it came to telling us that Islam has more followers than Catholicism.

We are told that the radical antisemite terrorists are a minority representation of the "false" muslims. But they were included in the world count of all muslims. So how different are they?

Islamophobia does cause terrorism. Islamophobia=Rejection of submitting to Islam.

Since a phobia is an unreasoned fear or panic disorder involving an unnatural or illogical functioning of the brain, the term Islamophobia is both inaccurate and misleading. Some people do indeed suffer phobias, demostrated as excessive fear of spiders, snakes, dogs of a particular colour, or many other possible fixations, even when no presence or threat from such objects is imminent or possible. There is little evidence of any widespread exhibition to the presence of old women entering a passenger airliner and shouting Allah Akbar! or simultaneously bowing toward Mecca, suddenly praying in a foreign language, or lighting fuses extending from their bootheels. Similarly there's been no widespread panic involving busty Nordic foreign students, or middle-aged Japanese businessmen- though some international air travelling orientals did indeed face closer scrutiny after three of their Japanese Red Army countrymen shot up Tel Aviv's Lod airport in 1972.

It's only after groups of muslums of mostly Middle-Eastern descent or appearance were involved in several incidents in which passenger aircraft were hijacked or destroyed that such concerns were evidenced, replacing concerns of earlier air passengers of several decades previously that they their flights to their destinations might be delayed by an unscheduled stop in Havana.

No, concern about islumist and muslum people and their characteristic disrespect for human life, to include the taking of their own to accomplish the deaths of others as a religious act that offers entry to a future paradise is more accurately described as Islamomisophia, though there's room to consider such details as spelling and wheether it deserves upper-case capitalization. Derived again from the description of the particular recipients of that sentiment, plus the more accurate word derived from the Greek -misos from which we have the words misanthrope for one who dislikes or distrusts humanity, or misogynist for one whose disdain is for one of a different sex, one who is Islamomisophic shows contempt for or disdain for those if islumic appearance or activity, whether deservedly or not.

But to be so accurate would remove the negative connotation from the term, smearing the accused with a mental disorder, and would be less politically useful. Which is why the terrorist murdererrs and their supporters refer to their enemise as Islamophobics in public- and, in private, by other, darker terms.

You make some good points. I like the term Islamomisophist and will probably use it in the future. It better describes my reaction to Islam. Not fear so much as the gag reflex.

None of that changes the fact that Muslims and Dhimmis will continue to call us what they will. I want to make it clear what they mean when they say Islamophobia: rejection of Islam and it adherents. They want want everyone either subjugated or dead. Say it clear and loud.