True, but Islamophobia is the term coined for anti-Muslim bigotry which is why we use it in this context. It is the same way antiSemitism is the term used for anti-Jewish bigotry despite the fact that some Jews are not Semites and some Semites are not Jews. Yet this can't be used as a reason to claim that antiSemitism does not exist. It is more to do with the meaning behind the term rather than what it sounds like on the surface.
Indeed.. I realize there is a problem with words/terms..
muslims .. People following certain cultural/ritual/religious norms of Islam/some Quran/some hadith...
jews.......People following certain cultural/ritual/religious norms of Judaism/OT/Tanka/Torah /Tanakh,...whatever...
christians.... People following certain cultural/ritual/religious norms of Islam...
hindus... people following certain cultural/ritual/religious norms of paganism/gods/vedas/goddesses whatever .....
And..samething goes for Buddhists ... calvinists... Sikhs....etc..etc....
I say and many in this forum will agree that
" People of 21st century must have freedom to criticize all religions, religious books/rituals" and they may/can have phobias
about religions/cults . There is nothing wrong with it..
But what people of 21st century can not have is., PHOBIAS ABOUT PEOPLE LIVING WITH THEIR FAITH/RITUALS.,
What is wrong is discriminating people who are following their respective faiths and yet live normally in a society USING GOLDEN RULE AS THE STANDARD for their actions in their life I used a word "CULT" ., I would like to define it and I know there is a difference between a cult and a religion.,
may be about about 100-200 years. Once a cult is able to establish itself for several generations, we call it a "religion." Before that, we dismiss it as a dangerous threat to real religion.
I will certainly question and I will oppose RELIGIOUS BUMS, religious pundits and politicians in collusion with those bums making rules to put people in jail and to persecute them just because they are questioning, criticizing the faiths, faith heads, their rituals and their religious scriptures..