Why can't intelligent people distinguish between extremists and everyday Muslims? It's amazing how many people hate all Muslims in Britain even though it is only a minority who are terrorists. It's not a new thing humans have always been like that I just can't understand how intelligent people can't understand that not all Muslims are terrorists?
I don't think that many people in Britain
hate all Muslims. I think a larger number are suspicious of Muslims. Or, at least, suspicious of those who actually profess a faith rather than just being born into the religion.
Part of the reason, I think, is that Britain is getting more and more secular. And many non-religious people will tend to lump all people who appear to be serious about their religion together. Because in the UK the most extreme Christians ones generally comes across are harmless but slightly wacky, that is the general view held of moderate Christians too. But similarly moderate Muslims are viewed as potentially as dangerous as the most extreme ones.