If I Were a Genocidal Nazi, I Probably Would Prefer to Disguise my Worldview as a Religion.
I find the word "Islamophobe" commonly bantered about by people who don't know what they're talking about. First of all, "phobe" means to fear. I don't fear Islam but am more inclined to identify myself as a hater of Islam. Hence, the idea behind this erroneous epithet, at least in my case, might be more appropriately dubbed "misitÃs tou Islam" or a "hater of Islam". Secondly, popular culture, without any thought, conflates the term "Arab" with "Islam". The naivete of this error is beyond stunning! Arab is an ethnicity. Islam is an ideology. Hence, ignorant know-it-alls tend to presume that a misitis tou Islam (which is the more appropriate epithet) is a hater of Arabs. Such is absolutely NOT the case. A "misitis tou Islam" is a hater of an ideology not an ethnicity! If I were to categorize myself, I would say that I am a "misitis tou Islam". I believe that Islam is an errant belief sys