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u really seem to have trouble with vernacular connotations. In the absence of a suitable term for "prejudicial discrimination on the basis of religion," "racist" has been adopted into the vernacular as a blanket term for all ethnic, cultural, and religious discrimination. It's a simple matter of efficiency. if you have a more efficient solution, you're welcome to present it, but otherwise you should probably accept that the language is evolving toward greater efficiency in a manner that the dictionary does not currently reflect.

That, and you know full well that the majority of people who are "racist" against Muslims direct that hatred toward all Arabic people, presuming them to be Muslim regardless of what their religion actually is. Very few of them are considering Muslims of other races, and despite claiming that their discrimination is religious in nature, it's typically race that actually evokes the sentiments.