The term Islamophobia first appeared in the pages of this newspaper 21 years ago, in December 1997, in an article titled, "World faces a resurgent Islam".

The piece, first published in The Sunday Times of London, was written after 62 people were killed at a tourist spot in Luxor, Egypt, by an Islamist militant group. It looked at how Islam has long been associated with violence - unfairly and sometimes out of proportion.