"Islam is no more an "ideology" than Judaism in this case, so your distinction is a false one. And the definition of Islamophobia as an "unfounded or irrational fear" is again not the common understanding of the word. Islamophobia refers to anti-Muslim bigotry, hatred etc in the same way that anti-Semitism refers to anti-Jewish bigotry, hatred etc."

Then call it what it is. Why repeat the mistakes of the past for political expediency? As a person that has studied the Quran and the earliest of the Hadiths and Islamic jurisprudence, I can rightfully call myself an Islamophobe, as I believe any rational-thinking person in western society would, given the content of the Quran and the fact that Muslims universally view the scripture as the immutable, infallible word of God. I demand the right to criticize Islamic ideology and not be painted as anti-Muslim, which I am not in the slightest (I have Muslim family and several Muslims friends that I love dearly)