It's become the good tone in right-wing movements and those that pretend to be right-wing to condemn Islam as loudly as possible. I get why, because right now, many of its followers are various shades of totalitarian assholes or welfare queens.
Still, I got a feeling that people are going overboard with it, and I really don't want to know where this hatred will lead. I've studied the Middle Ages this year, and from what I gathered, Islam was not that much worse than Christendom. Its followers were invading the Christian world and oppressing other religions, they did fuck Byzantine up, but they weren't particularly cruel. They were the enemy, but they weren't monsters. Saladin was respected in the western world as a just and wise leader who was sadly an infidel. Basileos II, meanwhile, blinded ten thousand captured Bulgar soldiers but left every hundredth of them with one eye to lead his comrades home. This is not to say that Christianity isn't better than Islam, but it does mean that the narrative of the inherently cruel and monstrous muslims doesn't hold water.
The so-called "conservatives" of our age are not treating muslim terrorists as honorable enemies that we can defeat and then make a peace with, and rightly so. There can be no peace with the likes of the IS, all you can do is annihilate them or seal them off and leave them to die. But what do we do about the civilians in islamic countries? If all muslims are inherently seditious and cruel, then we must kill them all, the children, women, elderly, and cripples. This is in fact what some people I talked to propose. Talking to them, you'd think that Islam was a race, not a religion. These people honestly think that we should nuke the Middle East based on a belief that everyone in these regions is a savage from birth, even though religion isn't genetical and millions of people there aren't even Muslims.
This shows the true color of the current narrative on Islam. This narrative is based on an unscientific racialism, collectivism, and an instrumentalization, not a genuine appreciation, of the culture and heritage of the western world. We must oppose it with just as much vigor of the old and tired leftist narrative that Islam is the "religion of peace".
Pic was the first thing I found when I looked for "muslim" in my folder.