I'm always confused by these Islamophobia charges. Christianity has similar backwards and violent rhetoric. Before the Reformation, non-Christians were right to fear Christians. Has Islam had a similar reformation of its violent precepts?

Was everything hunky dory after the reformation? Protestant missionaries cleared the ground for British and Dutch colonialism.

There’s no one Islam, so it depends on which Muslims you’re talking to.

> There’s no one Islam, so it depends on which Muslims you’re talking to.

There was no one Christianity either, but the question is, was it rational at the time to be cautious of any Christians if you didn't know their affiliations or religious zeal? It seems to me that charges of Islamaphobia are a convenience afforded only to those safe in developed countries far from the realities of life in Muslim theocracies.

You are correct the Reformation was not an end to violence, it was the start of the process of eliminating systematic violence at the behest of religious ideology. It's an ongoing process in all such religions, but it's not Islamaphobic to note that Islam is far behind the curve on this. I think Harris would agree that we shouldn't judge individuals based solely on their religious affiliation (and hence, don't stoke fear of Muslims), but to ignore the realities of Muslim theocracies is naive.