T H E E N D C O M M U N E

and the girl spake: 

"I absolutely repudiate the term 'islamophobia' precisely because it has a manipulatory element built into its very fundament; outside of the immature political jargon of unsophisticated dogmatists and ideologues, the suffix -phobia has a very direct, uncomplicated and technical meaning which is utilized extensively across the medical and psychological fields out of which it arose; -phobia denotes an irrational fear perceived towards any given subject; for example, arachnophobia, the irrational fear of (harmless) spiders. The term -phobia has been quite dishonestly appropriated from a technical medical and psychological phraseology into a political setting, and it has become weaponized by combattants of political pseudo-polemics as to manipulate the critic of Islam into subjugation; it is a dishonest move of political subterfuge. It implies that all and every critique of Islam is, by definition, irrational, and that is a manipulatory tactic of psycho-social and verbal domination, nothing more and nothing less. It is an intellectually pathetic move."