concerning the pop. narrative - i'm a wordsmith after all - someone gives me the raw materials of islam and (a rainbow) of affixing -phobia and i can't seem to hammer the **** thing into shape... it's, foremostly: a pseudo-phobia. a misnomer of the phobia compound.
for a people who have an "irrational" fear of islam, it seems strange that the same people gave birth to some form of rationality - let's just call it islamophobia not an irrational fear - but rather: and irritation - the irritable fear of being suddenly forced into the extremities of living the daily life - when something unexpected happens - mind you, the people who have been forced into these situations: stop their want for adrenaline in a base jump, from an aeroplane, or bungee jump off a bridge. islamophobia is not a "phobia" as such, it's not irrational - it's just irritating - but then again you don't actually believe a spider to be a irrational creature (arachnophobia), you don't believe an open space with lots of people (agoraphobia) to be an irrational circumstance - you're facing yourself being irrational in both circumstances - since the phobia hides an actual rationale - islam? that's much harder - since you're being "irrational" while someone is actually being "rational" - when in fact there's no escaping that contra of you being "rational" and the muslim being "irrational" - not one side is either *rational or irrational: the spider and the open space filled with people already stated: you're being irrational; the fear of spiders is irrational - but there is no rationality from the perspective of the spider: what does a spider know about rationality? jackshit! there is no such thing as islamophobia: because you're not being irrational about what has its own rationality - its own monologue and intra-dialogue... whoever coined this stupid word is as dumb as their rationality allows them to make enough people use it; it's only an irrational fear: if there is no rationale behind it; point being: there's rationale behind islam, ergo there is no such thing as islamophobia.