text: Is the term Islamophobia really obscure or tendentious?  A phobia is an extreme and irrational fear or aversion to something.  I am opposed to an irrational fear of or aversion to Islam because its, well, irrational.  To the extent that the Bill condemns an irrational fear of Islam, I support it, as should any rational person.  I  concede the term is relatively new.  The term  "dude" is also something of a neologism... its been around about as long as Islamophobia... This is no reason to oppose the use of  either  term.