To be clear, though, it's obvious that there is such a thing as anti-muslim bigotry. The problem is that the term "Islamophobia" has become so confused that it now ties in actual anti-muslim bigotry (which in Canada, it seems to me, is largely a matter of xenophobia as Yamer suggests) and simply taking issue with specific doctrines in Islam and they way those doctrines are interpreted by certain adherents.
Thing is, nearly all of them(that is, those muslims espousing illiberal views based on religious doctrine) reside somewhere other than North America, which completely undercuts any sort of "purpose", as Yamer puts it, that might be served by xenophobia. Which I don't really know is legitimate to begin with.
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