Spencer's rhetorical question about "Islamophobes"

One example of a rhetorical question Robert Spencer appends routinely and rather frequently to stories reporting Muslims behaving... Islamically:

Concerning Muslims in the Maldives government, Spencer reported:

Islamic Minister Dr Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari told local media that “a tenet of Islam cannot be changed” and flogging was a hudud punishment prescribed in the Quran (24:2) and “revealed down to us from seven heavens.”

Then Spencer wryly asked:

They said it, they cited the same chapter and verse that we have noted many times. Are they Islamophobes?