How I Choose to Battle Islamophobia in the West
What is Islamophobia? It is a dislike or fear of Muslims. Kind like any other phobia I guess. Arachnophobia; fear of spiders, xenophobia; fear of people from other countries, etc. The thing is I can't fully understand why anyone would have any of these phobias. Fears, concerns, prejudices, misconceptions; those I can understand but a phobia, not so much. As Muslims in the West this term has been on everyone's tongue. It is something we have in the back of our minds with ever