A 'phobia' is a 'fear' -- what is really being described is loathing. I don't 'fear' islamists -- I despise them.
I think we have every reason to fear Islam. A glance at it’s progression across the globe since Mad Mo crawled from the cave should convince anyone of that. Now it has established Caliphate beachheads in every Western nation, something it never was able to accomplish before. The Black Flag of Jihad now flies over hundreds of European cities. Rooting them out will be either impossible, or incredibly bloody and destructive, once the shooting phase of this war begins, globally. (BTW, that’s the topic of my next novel.)
“A ‘phobia’ is a ‘fear’ — what is really being described is loathing. I don’t ‘fear’ islamists — I despise them.”
...heard & agreed.
A phobia is an irrational fear. Should a person be considered acrophobic because he refuses to jump out of an airplane without a parachute?