IMO there are two issues here.
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Clearly that article is just rage bate, the headline says it all and most people who comment probably won’t even bother to read it.
Having said that, we need to move away from this suggestion that taking issue with anything Islam is Islamophobia or that it’s wrong in any way.
We need to draw a distinction between abusing individuals because of the religion they represent, while in the same breath being able to acknowledge that the religion itself represents hate, and harm, and to question why anyone, especially a woman, would feel the need to convert to it.
Any religion which upholds the segrigation of women, oppression of women, laws requiring them to cover up, so-called honour killings, and the list goes on, has no place in a civilised society.
Yes it can be argued that in a western country those laws do not have any grounding, but the reality is that there are plenty of people who practice Islam who still believe in those laws even though they know that they can’t uphold certain aspects of that belief over here and in other westernised countries.
People can believe whatever they want to believe, but IMO religion has no place in modern society and should be reserved for the place intended for it. Mosqs for Muslims, Churches for Christians etc. Nobody should be “identifying” as anything, believe what you like in the comfort of your home and church, and beyond that nobody needs to know.