::::::Islamophobia is deffinately used perjoritively, but it also can be merely discriptive unlike "nigger". The use as an insult stems from the fact that most people think discrimination is a negative thing, so that being called one (ie an islamophobe) is an insult. There is the feel as well that the negative nature of this term is then used to alter the political process by denying legitamate demorcratic debate about islam, that really is the deffinition of perjoritive.