I don't think it's so much that those two are particularly exempt. It's just that those two are perceived to be the two religious groups most at risk from persecution in the Western World.
I don't think it's any more 'okay' to wish harm against Sikhs or Christians than is to wish harm against Muslims or Jews if your primary motivation is simply the theistic guidelines that individual has chosen to follow.
I'm atheist. I also think that in the grand scheme of things that all religion is bad. But on an individual level, if following the teachings of the Quran/Bible/Torah/Guru Granth Sahib/whatever gives you some kind of benevolent purpose in life (which is generally the case for the vast majority of religious folk), then have at it, I say.
Islamphobia in particular is singled out because the UK has a growing Muslim population. Like whenever any other minority group (Caribbeans/Pakistanis) begin to migrate en masse to the UK, some of our pinker residents get a little shirty. Combine that with an ignorance/unfamiliarity with Islam as well as our news media essentially telling the UK public that any Muslim is a 'potential terrorist' and you've got a pretty good recipe for an outright campaign of hate against anybody with brown skin that likes to use a prayer mat.
You can't criticise Judaism, because it instantly makes you a Nazi sympathiser. Obviously.
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I don't wish harm upon religious or 'spiritual' people, I just think they're gullible and a bit thick.
The point I was trying to make was, how did these two religions, which people choose to follow, got equated with race, which is unsolicitedly assigned at birth.
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