Original sentence: Islamophobia is a neologism, consisting of the words "Islam" and "phobia".It is frequently used to describe "excessive or irrational fear for the islamic religion, Muslims or Islamic culture".The concept is disputed
Edited sentence: A set of negative assumptions are made of the entire group to the detriment of members of that group.During the 1990s some sociologists and cultural analysts hypothesized that there was a shift in forms of prejudice from ones based on skin colour to ones based on notions of cultural superiority and otherness.How new it is, in the historic light of The Crusades, is debatable and could be as old as the 11th or even 8th Century AD.Islamophobia encompasses the belief that Islam promotes religious fanaticism, violent tendencies towards non-Muslims, terrorism and rejects concepts such as equality, tolerance, democracy and human rights.Islamophobia is fear and/or hatred of Islam, Muslims or Islamic culture.It is viewed as a new form of racial prejudice whereby Muslims, an ethno-religious group, not a race, are nevertheless constructed as a race.Others, however, disagree, and hold that modern forms of prejudice are not substantially different from similar forms of prejudice that have existed in many other places and times