i don't like the term "islamophobia". the issue here is racism; conflating race with religion is......racist. just because somebody has brown skin doesn't mean that they're dumb enough to believe somebody flew into heaven on a chariot. and, honestly? i don't really have any problem with the idea of using the state to promote secularism at the expense of religiosity. it's when these policies attack secular people that happen to not be white that i tend to get upset.

so, let's be clear, here. the problem is not attacking islam. islam is every bit as horrific as christianity, even worse in some ways. it wouldn't be fair for me to be more lenient toward islam than i am towards christianity. that would itself be sort of racist.

the problem here is racism, as it is directed towards people that come from cultures where islam is statistically dominant - and that racism includes the assumption that ethnicity implies religiosity.