Re: Loathe Islam but not Muslims…
Perhaps..but then I’d suggest you’re not following (my attack on) the actual discourse of Bill Maher and Sam Harris, who suggest it is not xenophobic to attack Islam, the religion, mostly because of the politics of Islamism.
The point is, in all cases you have the ideals juxtaposed with the label given to those who adhere to those ideals. The statements other than the one dealing with Islam and Muslims would probably be generally considered nonsensical.
One can qualify the ideals in a hope to engineer a distinction between the statements, but I think the dichotomy stands. Those who suggest it’s possible to hate Islam but not Muslims can’t mean what they say.