Phobia doesn't just mean fear; but irrational fear... It kind of implies that "you" are a nutcase essentially / dellusional https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phobia >>: an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia >>A phobia is an anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation.[1] Phobias typically result in a rapid onset of fear and are usually present for more than six months.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias >>The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia). In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject (e.g. homophobia). The suffix is antonymic to -phil-. ... "Islamophobia" It's not totally irrational to be wary of islam and its followers, to say the least, given their track record in terms of mass slaughter