…here’s a paste from Google…”Phobia
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A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning “fear” or “morbid fear”) is an irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations…”

…A lot of folks are using this “..phobic” suffix lately. My eye was caught by the word…”irrational…” in this pasted definition.

I see nothing at all “irrational” in my personal fear of Islam. So…if I’m not literally Islamo-”phobic”…what is the term to be applied to my very rational fear of Islam?

I’m not asking this to read like some smart-ass sophomore….I pose the question because words/terms/expressions are tools of the skilled propagandist and are used against us by the likes of Fareed Zakaria in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The NYT, and Washington Post, each of which presents itself as a smug paragon of virtue.