to these authors an islamophobic position typically encompasses the belief that islam intrinsically promotes religious fanaticism violent tendencies towards non muslims terrorism and that islam is intrinsically hostile to concepts such as equality tolerance democracy and human rights islam does intrinsically promote religious fanaticism does promote violence and ill feeling towards non muslims does seem to spawn many terrorists and is intrinsically hostile to concepts such as equality tolerance democracy and human rights i thought a phobia was an irrational fear of something i admit that i do fear islam the belief system but i don't consider this a phobia it seems quite rational to me i just don't want to see many more countries becoming anything like iran with sinners being put to death for commiting crimes that are merely breaches of islam islam does seem to promote a desire to do away with secular democracies and impose islam as a form of government muslims somehow manage to evoke more uneasiness in me even than george bush and his loony fundamentalist christian friends religion is such a scourge on our species killing each other over invisible dieties who don't even exist dumb