(Telegraph-UK) Editorial - The term Islamophobia entered political discourse in 1997, popularized in a report from the Runnymede Trust. The report focused on perceived anti-Muslim prejudice, though it was not apparent back then that there was a popular animus towards Muslims reflected in widespread violent behavior. Politicians who refuse to acknowledge their own perceived Islamophobia are now being denounced as racists, even though Islam is a religion. It also differs from antisemitism, a centuries-old prejudice that has been used in the past to exclude Jews entirely from a country or to murder them in their millions. To demand parity between the two is an abuse of language.
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