Islamophobia - "a nonsence term"
1. A non-word
Islamophobia is a fear, prejudice and hatred of Muslims that leads to provocation, hostility and intolerance by means of threatening, harassment, abuse, incitement and intimidation of Muslims and non-Muslims (United Nations)
Islamophobia .... is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness (All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, November 2018)
The present writer believes that the term Islamophobia, as applied throughout the Western world during the 2020s, is a non-sequitur, a "nonsense term", or a word which is inherently incorrect in what it seeks to describe, i.e., an irrational fear of Islam (New Culture Forum 2026). A phobia is an irrational fear. Yet any reading of the Qur'an - the key document and foundation of Islam - by an individual, whether Muslim or Infidel, will instill fear in them - fear for their individual well-being and fear for their nation and all those around them. The Wikipedia definition attempts to relate the so-called phobia to racism, and hatred of both Islam and Muslims, as follows:
Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or hatred of the religion of Islam or Muslims in general. Islamophobia is characterised as a form of religious or cultural bigotry in which Muslims are stereotyped as a geopolitical threat or a source of terrorism. Muslims, with diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds on a worldwide scale, are often inaccurately portrayed by Islamophobes as a single homogeneous racial group. (Wikipedia 2026)
The expansion of the definition to include individual Muslims and present them as a specific "race" is both a covert action on the part of those seeking to promote Islam, and also on those who noticed an obvious problem with the word and its evolving usage as a catch-all for negative actions and statement towards Islam and its followers.
These present writer does not raise this issue lightly, due to the fact that any criticism of Islam is usually met with a threatening response, an accusation of Islamophobia, and can lead in many cases to discriminatory treatment or the issuing of a fatwa which is a world-wide demand by Islamic authorities that individuals amongst the 2 billion Muslims on the planet carry out a death sentence on the person to whom the fatwa is directed. The actual violent nature of Islam is described very clearly in the following interview with the son of the leader of HAMAS, who was raised as a Muslim and well knows the content of the Qur'an and associated Hadith documents which supplement it and are part of Islamic canon:
Mosab Hassan Yousef just said what NO ONE is allowed to say about Islam, Stand Tall Israel, 13 January 2026, YouTube, duration: 12.58 minutes.
The problematic nature of the term Islamophobia is outlined in the following presentation regarding the British government's attempts to introduce it into law:
New Islamophobia definition a 'gift' to to Islamists and could silence ANY criticism of Islam, The New Culture Forum, 17 January 2026, YouTube, duration: 7.46 minutes.
The narrator points out that Islamophobia is not a term which can be applied in regards to racism as, like with Christianity and other international spiritual beliefs and ideologies, there is no specific race attached to Islam amongst its two billion adherents.
The issue around the word was highlighted in Australia with the Bondi Beach massacre of 14 December 2025, wherein two ISIS terrorists killed and maimed more than fifty people in a jihadist attack on ordinary Australians and Jewish people. The failure by government to directly address the cause of the incident and defer from any mention of Islamic ideological terrorism was seen in the so-called Hate Speech laws proposed by the government in January 2026. Some of the criticism of them is seen in the following video from the conservative, right-wing Sky News channel.
PM is clueless with new hate laws, Sky News Australia, 15 January 2026, YouTube, duration: 5.19 minutes.
Mr Littleproud addresses the fact that the events at Bondi Beach instilled fear in all Australians. The fact that the root cause of the massacre was Islamic ideology once again points to the fact that Islamophobia is not a term that should be applied to the rational and very real fear of Islam and its teachings, whether they be called orthodox or radical. It should not be meant to apply to individual Muslims.
One of the major problems facing the world in regards to Islam is the fact that there is so much positive spin applied to it, by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that most people either know nothing about it; look positively towards it as a "religion of peace"; or fear so-called "radical Islam" and jihadist based terrorism. They have not read the Qur'an and do not realise that, as pointed out by Mosad Assad Yousef above, it is an incredibly dangerous and fear-inducing book. Fortunately, social media is helping people to understand both the history of Islamic conquest since 622AD and the truth around Islamic ideology - an ideology which leads to a questioning as to whether the term "religion" can be applied to it at all. The fact is, of those two billion adherents, the vast majority do not actually adhere to the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an. However, when a fatwar is issued, the victim of that is not able to tell whether the Muslims around him/her is going to carry it out and kill them or not. With Islamic leadership not denouncing the fatwa instrument, and Western leaders usually too afraid to do so, the fear is real. Therefore Islamophobia does not exist. What does exist is rational fear of Islam, and what can arise out of that is a hatred of individual Muslims. That is a problem which should be addressed, just as the hateful, violent and discriminatory aspects of Islamic ideology should be addressed.
Islamophobia is a nonsense, inappropriate word, for there is much within Islamic ideology to fear, and such fear is reasonable and rational; it is not unreasonable or irrational. However, to have a fear of each and every Muslim is not reasonable, unless, of course, you are the subject of a fatwa or the victim of Muslim extremism. Government and societies therefore need to address the unreasonable fear of Muslims in general. Once again, this is not a racism issue. Anti-semitism is a racism issue, because it directly applies to the Jewish race. Just as opposition to Catholicism, Buddhism, Jainism, Mormonism and similar spiritual practises is not a racist issue. It is a religious freedom issue, if indeed it is purely dealing with belief systems and not, as in the case of Islam and other cults, dealing with actual ideologies which do harm to people and spread hatred and violence, or specific aspects of religions which support such fear-inducing and objectionable practices and behaviours.
Seeking to protect Islam because it is classified as a religion, and ignore all the objectionable elements which one would more commonly associate with a cult, is the problem. It is therefore clear that Islam is not aligned with Western values, and is actually actively and openly opposed to them. As such, Islam requires reformation to enable and ensure its sustainable alignment with the West and other non-Islamic countries and nation states. As the stated role of Islam is a world-wide caliphate of Islamic states operating under Sharia law, there is no likelihood of any such genuine reformation taking place in the short to medium term.
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2. References
Easat-Dass, Amina, How to tackle Islamophobia: The best strategies from around Europe, SBS Australia, 22 February 2019.
Mosab Hassan Yousef just said what NO ONE is allowed to say about Islam, Stand Tall Israel, 13 January 2026, YouTube, duration: 12.58 minutes.
New Islamophobia definition a 'gift' to to Islamists and could silence ANY criticism of Islam, The New Culture Forum, 17 January 2026, YouTube, duration: 7.46 minutes.
PM is clueless with new hate laws, Sky News Australia, 15 January 2026, YouTube, duration: 5.19 minutes.
United Nations, What is Islamophobia?, International Day to combat Islamophobia, 15 March, United Nations, no date.
Wikipedia, Islamophobia, Wikipedia, accessed 18 January 2026.
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Last updated: 18 January 2026
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