“phobia” is supposedly Greek for an ‘irrational or excessive fear.’ But some fears are rational and reasonable, what is the Greek word for them? I don’t claim to know Greek, but my understanding is that the roots of phobia in Greek also trace to Phobos, the mythological son of Ares and Aphrodites. For whom the larger moon of Mars is named. Its smaller moon is Deimos, named for his brother. The ‘sons’ were thought to provide differing aspects of ‘fear’ for their war god father. So I’m guessing and extrapolating “deimia” might mean a reasonable fear. In which case those who think fear of Islam IS reasonable should be embracing “Islamodeimia.” If anyone who knows Greek properly knows of more accurate terminology please correct me; but there should logically be another greek word for reasonable fears and those who reasonably fear Islam shouldn’t be tarred by the ‘unreasonable’ implication of the suffix in Islamophobia.
““phobia” is supposedly Greek for an ‘irrational or excessive fear.’
This is created when it severely restricts your life. I’m sure you have seen the pro-palestine demonstrators trying to do harm in mny places in the US. If one of those wackos does something stupid and shoots or beats someone like the Jewish student at Tulane. We’ve had a few of them here in the northwest. Some elsewhere were:
https://www.newsweek.com/footage-shows-pro-palestinian-rally-turn-violent-new-orleans-1838436
Trying to lesson the fer of something thtg has been displayed with beheadings, burning of live bodies, shootings, kidnapping, using people for the assault liker hiding weapons in a hospital...
How violent does it have to get or ends up in your neighborhood before the fear is so intense people are scared for their lives?
A phobia is an overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. Phobias are more pronounced than fears. They develop when a person has an exaggerated or unrealistic sense of danger about a situation or object. I don’t see an exagerated or unrealistic fear. Did you know th the term native American didn’t exist until the late 1940’s. People started substituting it for the American Indian. Wrong use.
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