Who comes up with these new "phobias"? Today, ABC News reports on Islamophobia beginning with an example from a November 2003 event in Paris. By classifying criminal activity as the actions of some ignorant individuals with irrational fears, we miss the real point. Criminal behavior is the result of personal choices.
Hatred manifested through violent acts against Muslims, Jews, Christians, the Fur or any other group is not a phobia of those people. Such behavior must be called exactly what it is and condemned. Moreover, by renaming such activity, it is implied that education and/or therapy will provide the means to correct this ignorance and eliminate the phobia.
When was the last time you heard an individual use the xenophobic defense? What we do hear is hatred toward a people group and it is then acted upon.
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