The word Islamophobie is itself subject of debate in France,[5][6][7] since it is not clear whether it designates the fear of Islam or the racism against Muslims, the first being a legal opinion and belief while the second constitutes a crime according to French law.[8] That is the reason why some authors urge to use racisme anti-musulman,[9][10] literally "anti-muslim racism", instead of Islamophobie, in order to differentiate between the distrust against Islam seen as a corpus of religious believes and the systematic hate and discrimination against Muslims.