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Islamophilia is neologism attributed to right-wing crank Daniel Pipes[1] and is intended to denote the inverse to the concept of Islamophobia. Ironically, as Pipes is himself a notably raving Islamophobe,[2] the term is — atleast in the context of Pipes using it — entirely reducible to a tu quoque snarl word.
Literally translating to "[the] love of Islam", the term is intended to describe attitudes which are completely uncritical of Islam, and which conclude that Islam either lacks any negative attributes, or has only positive qualities. The question if people like this actually exist or not (outside of suicide bomber echo chambers) remains open, however.
The outlook of Islamophilia would contend that the central theme of dogmatic Islam is actually irrelevant to explaining the actions of terrorist groups such as DAESH, concluding instead that even fundamentalist Islam just implies more of the religion of peace. Obviously, a near-Poe position that is impossibly held in earnest by an educated person.
See no evil, hear no evil
Consummate cultural relativists would make for ideal Islamophiles, admiring the exoticness of an ancient belief in a loving and peaceful sky patriarch, who only sometimes encourages murder, torture and extreme cruelty towards innocents, all the while brushing the vile treatment of women, homosexuals, atheists and anyone else who will not submit to a utopian muslim society under a very large carpet, encouraging some rather selective playing of the "Who am I to judge?"-card.
The love of straw men?
It is unclear to which extent Islamophiles actually exist in the west, as being one to the extent that Piper defines would require willful ignorance of such obviously Islamic phenomena as DAESH, Islamism generally, and Sharia law — including the quite explicit penalties it proscribes, including decapitations, amputations, stoning (not the pleasant kind), whippings and so on, often for very modest "crimes", such as simply being gay or rejecting mandatory burka wearing.