Hmm …

… Reading Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Islamophobia. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Islamaphobia is a phony term. A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing people who cut other people's heads off. Moreover, the fear is not directed at Islam. It is directed at certain practitioners of Islam who are in the habit of killing people. To equate caution regarding refugees from countries where Islamic extremism flourishes with a phony phobia is intellectually dishonest at best.