Definitions

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  • noun One (especially one who is not an adherent of Islam) who loves Islam, Muslims or Islamic culture.

Etymologies

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Islamo- + -phile or Islam + -o- +‎ -phile.

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Examples

  • Nor does it take an ‘Islamophile’ to point out that Latin America is not a muslim region.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gettleman on Somalia 2009

  • "Newt is more to the right of Mussolini on this," emailed Victoria de Graziathe, director of Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Europe, who wrote that Mussolini positioned himself as an Islamophile "to bug the British, also because he was an anti-Semite, also because he liked Nietzsche and Nietzsche was interested in the Koran."

    Newt's Park51 Stance Puts Him 'To The Right' Of Il Duce 2010

  • Nothing is worse than the Islamophile propaganda which the BBC pumps out now under the name of religious broadcasting.

    WICCAN THOUGHT FOR THE DAY? 2009

  • He also refers to Jerusalem as being "occupied by foreigners," signifying that he is an Islamophile and anti Jewish and Christian.

    George Galloway in Cleveland... GayandRight 2009

  • Meanwhile, Akkad saw the Islamophile half of his work win a new lease on life as Oriental works in an Occidentally accessible form: according to Queen Noor, the Pentagon bought 100,000 copies of The Message to show to U.S. troops before they left for Afghanistan.

    Moustapha, Messenger of Hollywood 2006

  • Melanie's 2 sources are the "American expat in South East Asia" who runs an anti Obama blog and writes unacceptable things like "A young mulatto abandoned by his black Kenyan father and cared for by his white American mother, an anthropologist and Islamophile who hated America and subsequently went native."

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Meanwhile, Akkad saw the Islamophile half of his work win a new lease on life as Oriental works in an Occidentally accessible form: according to Queen Noor, the Pentagon bought 100,000 copies of The Message to show to U.S. troops before they left for Afghanistan.

    Moustapha, Messenger of Hollywood 2006

  • Meanwhile, Akkad saw the Islamophile half of his work win a new lease on life as Oriental works in an Occidentally accessible form: according to Queen Noor, the Pentagon bought 100,000 copies of The Message to show to U.S. troops before they left for Afghanistan.

    Moustapha, Messenger of Hollywood 2006

  • Kalashnikov rifles are popular in immigrant neighborhoods in the EU capital of Brussels, whereas members of the Flemish party the Vlaams Belang who staged a peaceful demonstration against the Islamization of their country were brutally harassed by the Belgian authorities after the Socialist Islamophile mayor of Brussels had banned their demonstration.

    Jihad Watch Robert 2010

  • The Royal Marine incident in the Al-Shatta Waterway showed what happens when an Islamophile government pulls the strings.

    The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum 2010

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