Yes. In those cases, it's islamophobia. If someone called them a name of a white Muslim terrorist, that would have an ethnic basis to it, hence it would be racist.
Again, why do you think in this case was Moeen's ethnicity not relevant to him being called Osama?
I'll reply this one last time because you didn't call me a moron.
Why pick on Moeen for that particular comment, especially given the propensity of Asians, moreover Asian-Muslims (one in the cricketer's very team!), the giver of this comment would associate with across a given top flight cricketing career? What similarity does Moeen possess to Osama Bin Laden, that other Asian Muslims - some of them
just as pious as Moeen - has? The beard. Maybe I'm given whoever it is the benefit of the doubt in believing that he
doesn't simply see ''all Asians'' (e.g. Virat Kohli) or even ''Muslim Asians'' (e.g. Usman Khwaja) as ''terrorists'', but this feels too culturally (nb., not racially) specific?
It could have been used against Amla also (and probably has at some level on Amla's cricketing journey - I seem to recall Amla discussing something like that, facing insults).
The merest knowledge of Moeen Ali, extracted from interviews say, will tell you of his deep observance of the Islamic faith, that this is by far more important to him than anything in life (including cricket, and yes, even including his racial make-up).
And why not use a whole plethora of insults familiar to Australians which
are racially specific to people of Pakistani ancestry (and sometimes sloppily applied to non-Pakistani Asians also), the ones about cornershops, etc? These insults have nothing to do with religion but race, affiliated with the socio-economic background of Pakistani migrants to countries like Britain, Australia and the United States. The cricketer could have quite easily chosen one of these. He didn't. He chose an insult based around a (non-racial) proselytizing religion.
