Why are you so scared of Muslims anyway?
I really don't think this question should be asked so flippantly. There are many reasons why people of other faiths and cultures are nervous of people from other cultures and religions, particularly in a conflict scenario or in the context of a past conflict scenario.
I dare say if you were a Lebanese Orthodox Christian, you'd be a little nervous of a Shia Muslim from a Hezbollah neighbourhood. To argue this is bigoted would be a very blockheaded response to a complex and intricate climate informed by conflict, terrorism, politics, Turkish imperialism, and history. Likewise, if you were to argue the same to a British Hindu or Sikh whose family has suffered under partition.
One must be careful not to dismiss people's fears, but rather address them and see how a situation can be resolved.
As someone from a mixed origin family, married to a DH from the Middle East, I do often detect a strange British imperialist attitude to Islam and Muslim communities in Britain, as though these communitites are a colonised people and thus not worth taking seriously, and should largely be left alone to live according to their traditions because they aren't very important apart from to harvest votes. It's the imperial attitude towards India writ large in Britain. This, I feel, is a huge mistake.
I would also argue that it is disconcerting to see a conservative theocratic phenomenon gain ground in Britain, and I would say the same if that phenomenon were of any other religion. The fact that we have young men to whom religion is an excuse to join a murderous band of proxy mercenaries intent on massacring, torturing, and oppressing towns and cities is concerning, to say the least.
To pretend otherwise, I believe, is somewhat naive.