How to Use Islamophobia in a Sentence

Islamophobia

noun
  • The artist also averred that Germany was turning a blind eye to Islamophobia.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 2024-11-25
  • Karine talked about what's going on college campuses, but same goes for Islamophobia.
    — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 2023-10-30
  • And one of my deep concerns is the alarming increase of Islamophobia and antisemitism and other forms of hate speech since the war here at home.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 2023-12-18
  • Many schools have been shaken by protests over the war in Gaza, as well as by complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobia over the last few months.
    — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 2024-03-29
  • Reports of antisemitism and Islamophobia have piled up amid the conflict.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2023-12-08
  • In Paris, a rally against Islamophobia and in tribute to the victim was held at the Place de la République.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-27
  • But the wave of Islamophobia in the last months of the year had a significant impact on the workplace and education settings.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 2024-04-02
  • Rights advocates raised concerns about antisemitism and Islamophobia during the protests and counter-protests.
    — Kanishka Singh, USA Today, 2025-03-29
  • There are many things that are within that fabric of the film: the Islamophobia, the caste-ism, corruption, the casual violence.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-12-11
  • Nihad Awad: Well, look, to me and to all of us, anti-Semitism is no different than Islamophobia.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 2024-05-05
  • With more people speaking out on anti-Black Islamophobia online and in real life, the rate of reporting is bound to increase.
    — Hannan Mohamud, refinery29.com, 2021-07-30
  • Mark Kelly Islamophobia is again the obsession of progressives and the media.
    — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 2023-11-01
  • In response to their neighbors’ paranoia and widespread Islamophobia, the Husseins decide to look one way inside their home and another outside of it.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 2025-04-18
  • The failure to call Islamophobia by its name was a recurring theme in conversations with South Asian industry figures.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2024-08-14
  • Welcoming Muslim and Arab perspectives in the media would go a long way to both informing the public and cutting through the hype of Islamophobia.
    — Hafiz Rashid, The New Republic, 2023-10-18
  • The Islamophobia was fostered by not only Partition but by the way Pakistan supported jihadi groups in the two-thousands.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2023-03-31
  • The reason the mayor needs a view on the war in Gaza is that its aftershocks play out on London’s streets—in protests and counterprotests, in rising antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 2024-03-26
  • That’s the rallying cry for many of those who feel shocked by skyrocketing antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses and K-12 schools.
    — Boaz Dvir, TIME, 2024-05-06
  • On Thursday, possibly in a bid to course correct, the White House announced somewhat vague plans to develop a strategy to counter Islamophobia.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2023-11-03
  • The country also witnessed over 1,000 separate incidents of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in just nine months.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 2024-09-23
  • Mone's latest statement condemned both antisemitism and Islamophobia, saying UWM should be welcoming to all.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2024-05-21
  • But the film was also set against the backdrop of real-life issues: Islamophobia, gays and women in the church, and a seemingly endless tension between traditionalism and religious reform.
    — Fran Tirado, Them, 2024-12-20
  • The confrontation has renewed the world’s long-dormant attention to the Palestinian cause and stoked heated emotional debates and global spikes in antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-12-05
  • Their testimony, amid rising reports of antisemitism and Islamophobia linked to the Israel-Hamas war, drew backlash for failing to condemn calls for violence against Jews.
    — Lauren Floyd, Axios, 2025-03-29
  • Many public officials have spoken out against the rise in antisemitism after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October of 2023, but are less vocal about the rise in Islamophobia.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2025-02-20
  • The sociopolitical conflicts at the root of the two protest eras are not precisely the same, however — and in today’s campus environment, students are also sounding the alarm about a sharp uptick in both antisemitism and Islamophobia since Oct 7.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 2024-05-01
  • In late 2021, the House of Representatives passed a measure that would create a special envoy to monitor and combat Islamophobia worldwide, but the Senate has never acted on it.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2024-07-25
  • Reports of both antisemitism and Islamophobia have surged in Australia since October 2023, according to the offices of two separate envoys appointed to address the issue.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The events of October 7, 2023 and the ongoing suffering in Gaza weigh heavily on us, underscoring the urgent need for compassion amid rising antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Not long after that, California DNC member Joe Salas spoke in favor of a resolution condemning Islamophobia that ended up passing unanimously.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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