Shariaphobia

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sharia +‎ -phobia

Noun[edit]

Shariaphobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Fear or hatred of sharia law.
    • 2012, "jwshe", AFDI/SIOA, FMU to Host "Summer Night for Human Rights" in Defense of Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death for Leaving Islam (on newsgroup soc.culture.iranian; reposted from Yahoo! News)
      Our Human Rights Town Hall calls out Islamic supremacist groups in America to cease and desist their subversive activity under the guise of 'civil rights' or Shariaphobia.
    • 2013, Fouzia Khan, Conference vows to combat extremism (arabnews.com)
      Badawi also said there is wide misunderstanding and fear of the Sharia, which can be explained as “Shariaphobia,” a mindset of Islamophobia.
    • 2014, C. B. Pratt, “My God is Not Your God”: Applying Relationship Management Theory to Managing Ethnoreligious Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa:
      In the United States, a proposal to build an Islāmic community center and a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, New York, led to an increase in Islāmophobia and “Shariaphobia” in 2010.