to circulation to try and suggest that a foul prejudice lurks behind any misgivings about Islam's infallible "message""
Several scholars have claimed that this hitherto little-known term was weaponised in the 1990s by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood to stigmatise any criticism of the Islamic world by casting it as delusional. Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former Islamist, has said he was present early in that decade when members of the Brotherhood-linked International Institute for Islamic Thought decided to adopt the term Islamophobia to halt attacks as effectively as “homophobia” had done for gay people. He wrote in 2010 of Islamophobia: “This loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliché conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.”
Leave a Reply