Je suis Charlie? Then challenge the Islamophobia industry

Je suis Charlie? Then challenge the Islamophobia industry | Brendan O’Neill | spiked:
"The accusation of ‘Islamophobia’ is designed to strangle critical thinking.
If Europe really wants to pay tribute to the journalists and cartoonists massacred in Paris last week, it could do worse than ditch the term ‘Islamophobia’. 
For this empty, cynical, elitist phrase, this multicultural conceit, has done an untold amount to promote the idea that ridiculing other people’s beliefs and cultures is a bad thing. 
In fact, the widely used but little thought-on i-word has pathologised the very act of making a judgement. 
It has turned the totally legitimate conviction that some belief systems are inferior to others into a swirling, irrational fear — a phobia — worthy of condemnation and maybe even investigation by officials. 
...Never has the disconnect between the claims of the Islamophobia industry and the reality on the ground in Europe been as starkly exposed as over the past week. 
The blood on the floor of Charlie Hebdo’s offices was still wet when, moving on with callous speed from worrying about the terrible fate of 10 journalists, the respectable media started fretting about the danger now faced by European Muslims. 
We should all fear ‘the coming Islamophobic backlash’, said one hack..."