I said that there are hate crime laws that determine the boundaries of lawful dissent in terms of speech. I said that demonization gets mapped onto the bodies of Muslims who then become victims of Islamophobic violence as a result of those types of ideas. I'm not suggesting it be criminalized.
You talk about the different definitions. I could ask everyone is this room to give me a definition of racism, and they will all come up with different definitions than I have as a race scholar because not everyone has textbook definitions, but people understand it and know it when they see it.
So again, I think my colleagues have asked why we are holding Islamophobia's definition up to a higher standard than we hold other definitions. Even the definition of culture has changed throughout the centuries, and there are about 40 or 50 different definitions for that. Why are we holding this to a different level?
I've tried to outline a working definition that can be used to help dismantle Islamophobia, and I've worked on educational projects with UNESCO and the Council of Europe on how we combat Islamophobia using a definition like this. The operational definition has been there, and it's been used in other national contexts.