They decry what they have themselves created, a predictable
reaction to the violence that emanates from strict readings
of the religion's sacred book and its exegesis held by
believers to be the word of God transcribed for piety in
adherence to its commands. Foremost, the command
to the faithful to exercise jihad in all its excessive forms.
The resulting violence and its sheer barbaric inhumanity
impressed in people's minds. Living in Western Christian
-dominated societies of liberal democracies where
all religions are held in equal respect, the brazen display
of Muslim communal prayer in public venues to
command attention defies public order, restraining areas
from their original public purpose. Defiant arrogance
that distances Muslims from others in an exercise of
dominating entitlement that draws revulsion toward
them and the societal non-conformance they represent in
deliberate rejection of prevailing social mores of mutual
tolerance and respect that labels them unwanted outsiders.
Defensively and obtusely interpreted by Islamists as
rejection and disrespect for Islam, hence 'Islamophobia'.
Phobia of deliberate disruption and dominance.
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