`  :``To these authors an Islamophobic position typically encompasses the belief that Islam intrinsically promotes religious fanaticism, violent tendencies towards non-Muslims, terrorism, and that Islam is intrinsically hostile to concepts such as equality, tolerance, democracy and human rights.``  Islam does intrinsically promote religious fanaticism, does promote violence and ill-feeling towards non-Muslims, does seem to spawn many terrorists, and is intrinsically hostile to concepts such as equality, tolerance, democracy and human rights.  I thought a phobia was an irrational fear of something.   I admit that I do fear Islam, the belief system, but I don't consider this a phobia. It seems quite rational to me. I just don't want to see many more countries becoming anything like Iran, with sinners being put to death for commiting ``crimes`` that are merely breaches of Islam.   Islam does seem to promote a desire to do away with secular democracies and impose Islam as a form of government. Muslims somehow manage to evoke more uneasiness in me even than George Bush and his loony Fundamentalist Christian friends.  Religion is such a scourge on our species. Killing each other over invisible dieties who don't even exist. Dumb.`