Why is there so much hate in Europe and North America against Muslims?

[Karmadhi]

Hello

I have noticed an insane amount of hatred online and even by real people, including politicans towards Islam and Muslims

What I find weird is that they blame everything on the religion instead of the individual country or culture

For example, if X nation's population has a higher crime rate, then they will say "islam strikes again"

As if Islam promotes theft, rape, murder or other crimes

They never look at the socio-economic factors or the national situation of these countries but basically blame it all on religion

This is wrong for many reasons

1. Some of the safest countries in the world are hardcore muslim nations like UAE, Saudi or Qatar

2. You have nationalities or groups from non Muslim nations that also can perform more crimes per capita than non Muslim nations but they get sweeped under the rug

3. There is no clear teachings in Islam to promote crimes, things like theft, rape or murder are heavily punished in Islamic rules.

4. A lot of the people who do bad things are not even proper religious, they will for example do a crime while drunk which is anti muslim.

5. For some reason other religions get a pass. Hindus are not for example ever called terrorists even though they have done terrorisms. Same for Jews and Christians.

I am personally not religious but i do have many muslim friends in the West and some have told me they feel unsafe due to this hatred and climate.

They are not radicals or anything like that, very law abiding chill people.

What do you guys think?

Edited 1 hour ago by Karmadhi

[Raze]

Lower developed stages are prone to fixating on minorities on the source of problems or projecting their goals into them.

In the US there was a wave of this due to 9/11 and other attacks, and in Europe resentment over Muslims being many of the immigrants who increasingly moved there.

Governments also exploit this to get the population on their side to expand foreign operations for geopolitical gains. Similar thing happened dealing with native Americans, Japanese, Vietnamese, when their countries were targets. 

[enchanted]

Its hard to be accept because we consider the modern world advanced but I think it's generational hatred and the ingrained/learned fear of someone different. The Abrahamic religions have been hating each other since they started. Even Muslims of different sects hate each other. Protestants and Catholics have been killing each other for years. 

We get shocked by Hitler actions but, did you know that when Genghis Khan invaded Europe, the Christians started burning the Jews alive in an effort to find some to blame? Compared to history, Hitler isn't that crazy or unique and neither is today's bigotry. 

This shit goes back centuries and it's still with us today. Just like our cuisine and language is inherited from 1000s of years ago, so is our hate. 

Edited 16 minutes ago by enchanted