Islamophobia

• islamophobia, Islamaphobia

From Islamo- + -phobia. Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati.

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Islamophobia (usually uncountable, plural Islamophobias)

1. Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
   • 2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 November 2025:

     No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

This term is generally used to describe discrimination against Muslims and Islam on the basis of fear, misunderstanding, ignorance or political bias. However, it is sometimes abused by Islamists and extreme Muslims, who claim that opposition to their beliefs is also opposition against Islam in general.

• Muslimophobia (uncommon, nonstandard)
• Muslimphobia

• anti-Arabism
• anti-Jewism
• anti-Semitism
• anti-Muslimism
• Christianophobia
• Germanophobia
• Judeophobia

• Oxford English Dictionary (online) 2007

• Somaliphobia