Rational distrust Islam is not a phobia; it is a prudent act for a free, non-Islamic society striving to remain free and independent. Anyone who says otherwise wants to put your women in Burkas and keep you ignorant.
The Left tried the same tactic in the 1940s-1960s when they called it a “Red Scare” fear of Communist infiltration into American schools, government, military, and media.
When it was proven that those Communists who were here had higher loyalties to the Soviet Unions they shrugged their shoulders and said “la la la, I can’t hear you, la la la, that was a long time ago, la la la, we didn’t know that Stalin was killing so many people, la la la, what else did Stalin do BESIDES that, you know, the GOOD things, la la la...”