A term’s etymology does not determine its actual meaning or use.

Evidence

When talking about Islamophobia, we mean anti-Muslim racism. As Anti-Semitism Studies has shown, the etymological components of a word do not necessarily point to its complete meaning, nor how it is used. Such is also the case with Islamophobia Studies. Islamophobia has become a well known term used in academia as much as in the public sphere. Criticism of Muslims or of the Islamic religion is not necessarily Islamophobic. — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 193

Categorization

• DEFINE: Offers a working definition of Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism rather than criticism of Islam, while noting that criticism of Muslims is not automatically Islamophobic.
• XREF: Echoes the recurring theme across the Islamophobia and the Novel / Islamophobia in America highlights that the term resists fixed definition and undergoes conceptual stretching.