Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness

Anti-muslim hate is awful but I don’t think it’s “racism”. Although hate attacks on basis of religion in general should be treated as such.

I’m not too keen on the term “islamophobia” - you can’t really describe a dislike of an ideology as a “phobia” (irrational fear). “Muslimophobia” would make more sense. People should be free to criticise a religion without being branded islamophobic or committing a hate crime, provided that criticism doesn’t involve actually harming adherents of that religion.