"...if you take “phobia” to mean an irrational or abnormal fear, the tenor of this evidence-free, alarmist and manufactured controversy suggests it’s painfully close to the target." 

A phobia can be an extreme, very rational fear too. Could it be that Islamophobia qualifies as an extreme, evidence-rich fear of what radical Islam wants to do to all infidels (that's most of us here in Canada)? We all know from horrific news items exactly what it is they have said they will do, have done,  and want to keep on doing (but I can't spell it out because the G&M thinks that would be a "uncivil" comment and censor it).  M-103 is the thin edge of the wedge of curbing any discussion about radical Islam, and if you cannot recognize that fact you are in for a rude awakening.