Public figures argue anti-Islamic feeling is reasonable because Islam appears irrational

Evidence

Thus, we see instances of what is argued to be “rational Islamophobia” from public figures, such as the journalist Polly Toynbee and the authors Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, wherein claims are made for the reasonableness of anti-Islamic feeling on account of Islam’s own visible irrational qualities. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 93

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific essays or texts by Weldon and Winterson does Morey cite for ‘rational Islamophobia’? Worth chasing to compare against Naqvi and Hamid’s fictional counter-arguments.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘rational Islamophobia’ gets naturalized through the Protestant realist aesthetic — a bridge for reading Hamid’s parodic or subversive formal choices.
• XREF: connects to: Mediaeval critics mocked the Qur’an’s chapter names as irrational