AS writes, >The Brilliance Of The Term "Islamophobia", citing Denis Prager.
I have to dissent. Why? Not to carp against Prager, et. al., at all, but it has to do with the education branch of fighting extremism. One has to at least try to understand what is going on in various places before running around with night goggles in them ...
The term was coined by Islamists, to characterize the Islamic moderates who wanted to keep the clerics out of direct political power and more. (Check out Fred Halliday).