Islamophobia article vs Antisemitism article The first section in the Islamophobia article dedicated to indepth development of the concept  The concept of Islamophobia has been criticized on several grounds Some critics argue that it is real but is just another form of racism and does not require its own category while others argue that it is used to censor criticism that its use threatens free speech or is used to silence issues relating to Muslim populations in Western countries  Novelist Salman Rushdie and others signed a manifesto entitled Together facing the new totalitarianism in March  which denounced Islamophobia as a wretched concept British academic Michael Burleigh argues that the term spares anyone the need to examine what has gone wrong within Europes Muslim communities Others such as Edward Said consider Islamophobia as it is evinced in Orientalism to be a secret sharer in a more general antisemitic Western tradition However Daniel Pipes says that Islamophobia deceptively conflates two distinct phenomena fear of Islam and fear of radical Islam  The concept of Islamophobia as formulated by Runnymede is criticized by professor Fred Halliday on several levels He writes that the target of hostility in the modern era is not Islam and its tenets as much as it is Muslims and their actions suggesting that a more accurate term would be AntiMuslimism Poole responds by noting that many Islamophobic discourses attack what they perceive to be Islams tenets while Miles and Brown write that Islamophobia is usually based upon negative stereotypes about Islam which are then translated into attacks on Muslims Halliday also states that strains and types of prejudice against Islam and Muslims vary across different nations and cultures which is not recognized in the Runnymede analysis Miles and Brown respond by arguing that the existence of different Islamophobias does not invalidate the concept of Islamophobia any more than the existence of different racisms invalidates the concept of racism Halliday argues that the concept of Islamophobia unwittingly plays into the hands of extremists British writer and academic Kenan Malik believes that the charge of Islamophobia confuses discrimination against Muslims with criticism of Islam and that it is used to silence critics and Muslim reformers He writes that the extent to which Muslims are more vulnerable to social exclusion and attacks than other groups is frequently and allows for a culture of victimhood where all failings are attributed to Islamophobia Islamophobia is not a form of racism in his view because Islam is a belief system This analysis is criticized by Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain and Abdul Wahid from the Islamist group Hizb utTahrir Bunglawala writes that Maliks argument is limited to overt acts of violence against Muslims without recognizing less overt forms of prejudice or discrimination By ignoring nonviolent examples of Islamophobia Maliks commentary makes a mockery of victims of prejudice by pretending they have not been discriminated against according to Bunglawala  In the wake of the JyllandsPosten Muhammad cartoons controversy a group of  writers signed a statement in the French weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in March  warning against the use of the term Islamophobia to prevent criticism of Islamic totalitarianism The novelist Salman Rushdie was among these signatories These views are shared by Dutch law professor Afshin Ellian Critics cite the case of British journalist Polly Toynbee who was nominated in May  for the title of Most Islamophobic Media Personality of the Year at the Annual Islamophobia Awards overseen by the Islamic Human Rights Commission for claiming that Islam  imposes harsh regimes that deny the most basic human rights  In an article called Fighting Islamophobia A Response to Critics Assistant Professor Deepa Kumar writes that the modernday demonization of Arabs and Muslims by US politicians and others is racist and Islamophobic and employed in support of an unjust war About the public impact of this rhetoric she says that One of the consequences of the relentless attacks on Islam and Muslims by politicians and the media is that Islamophobic sentiment is on the rise She also chides some people on the left for using the same Islamophobic logic as the Bush regime She concludes with the statement At times like this people of conscience need to organize and speak out against Islamophobia Johann Hari of The Independent has criticized the use of the term by organizations like Islamophobia Watch arguing that liberal Muslims interested in reform are left unsupported because people fear being accused of Islamophobia Writing in the New Humanist philosopher Piers Benn suggests that people who fear the rise of Islamophobia foster an environment not intellectually or morally healthy to the point that what he calls Islamophobiaphobia can undermine critical scrutiny of Islam as somehow impolite or ignorant of the religions true nature The New Criterion editor Roger Kimball argues that the word Islamophobia is a misnomer A phobia describes an irrational fear and it is axiomatic that fearing the effects of radical Islam is not irrational but on the contrary very wellfounded indeed so that if you want to speak of a legitimate phobia we should speak instead of Islamophobiaphobia the fear of and revulsion towards Islamophobia  Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris has openly criticized the term Islamophobia in an article stating There is no such thing as Islamophobia Bigotry and racism exist of courseand they are evils that all wellintentioned people must oppose And prejudice against Muslims or Arabs purely because of the accident of their birth is despicable But like all religions Islam is a system of ideas and practices And it is not a form of bigotry or racism to observe that the specific tenets of the faith pose a special threat to civil society Nor is it a sign of intolerance to notice when people are simply not being honest about what they and their coreligionists believe   Meanwhile coverage of criticism of the concept in the Antisemitism article is  empty  there is a singlesentence allusion to criticism of something called The New AntiSemitism and thats it  If that were an isolated incident it wouldnt be upsetting It is not an isolated incident Its part of a pervasive systemic bias in Wikipedia that you even find in odd articles like Lara Logan The encyclopedia is bigoted and the bigotry is wellknown It has been wellknown for years under the name systemic bias and tolerated even reinforced by witting and unwitting admin actions The article on Islamophobia is Islamophobic Thats pathetic