There have been many objections to the use of the term 'Islam phobic' and arguments that the term 'antiMuslim racism' would be more accurate were it not for the obvious objection that
Muslims are not a race and that therefore hostility towards them cannot, by definition, be a form of racism.

One such objection was voiced by Polly Toynbee

In 1997 the journalist Polly Toynbee in reaction to the Runnymede report published that year wrote

'I am an Islamophobe,… I am also a Christophobe.
If Christianity were not such a spent force in this country, if it were powerful and dominant as it once was, it would still be every bit as damaging as Islam is in those theocratic states in its thrall… If I lived in Israel, I'd feel the same way about Judaism…'

It is very easy and pretty despicable to take a few words out of any context and twist them to mean something very different
If anyone has any doubts about Polly Toynbee's secular humanist and anti racist stance they would be better informed reading the whole of one of her columns

"The BNP has been allowed to make the weather by abusing Islam as a proxy for race in their vile literature. They have done it so successfully that criticising Islam seems to ignore the attacks on Muslims that have increased by nearly 50%. Robert Kilroy-Silk's mindless anti-Arab tirade only made matters worse, as his attacks on Sharia law blended nastily into racist smears. He made it harder for others to challenge some of the savage passages in the Koran, which apologists are eager to smooth over.
"Islamophobia" blurs racism and anti-religion dangerously. It's interesting to see how Christian activists are now keen to make common cause with Muslims, drawing on their heat and passion. (The far left is doing the same, even less convincingly.) Far from a Clash of Civilisations between Islam and Christianity, in Britain they join together over religious broadcasting, schools and other rights. Officialdom is easily frightened of Islam, with good reason, treading carefully in a minefield. There is an essentially craven tendency to give in to the notion that religious belief deserves some special treatment by the state. Labour has opened 60 new faith state schools - including a Seventh Day Adventist one.
Nowhere more than in schools should that be resisted. It is the state's duty to give every child an open-minded, free-thinking education, opening windows away from the cultural narrowness of each child's family background. So where is the vigorous campaign against religious schools? Parents want good schools, and might prefer not to have to get on their knees in their local church to get into them. It is extraordinary that secular Britain is rushing to re-invent religion and give state aid to promote superstitions of every hue."

Excerpt from
The Guardian, Friday 11 June 2004

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