However, given that most people evincing anti-Islamic prejudice identify the belief system of Islam as causing certain types of behavior in its adherents, Islamophobia seems as good a term as any. … Moreover, the urgency of addressing violence and discrimination almost always justified through hostility to beliefs and culture means that such semantic quibbling appears now something of a luxury, particularly while Islamophobic attacks rise in tandem with anti-Semitism as the extreme Right is emboldened.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 37