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The use of all of these terms is controversial, as they tend to be used prominently in local rhetorical appeals to Fallacy —namely the natural confusion between '' Politically-directed Opposition '' and '' Ethnically-directed Hostility ,'' often deliberately disregarding this distinction for Propaganda purposes.

These discriminatory attitudes are similar in nature to various religion-based hostile movements: Islamophobia , Christianophobia , Anti-Catholicism , based on the mixture of Xenophobia and ideological/political opposition.

The Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky noted that perhaps the original Western use of the term, from which all similar term originate, was by the Israelite King Ahab , in calling the prophet Elijah as "thou troubler of Israel."

Chomsky further argues that such terms are similar in that they are used by ," Italians would die laughing.'


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-PHOBIA

The suffix -phobia has gained popularity in its Non-clinical (mis)use to refer to various negative Attitude s.

Christianophobia and Islamophobia , while formally defined as negative attitude to a religion, also interpreted as attitudes to nationalities associated with these religions.