Divisiveness vs Love

I am amazed at how many conservative Christians promote divisiveness agains Muslims. I just finished reading Carl Medearis' excellent book, "Speaking of Jesus" and what I can't understand about conservatives is how they skip the "love your enemy" command of Jesus. The more we demonize and dehumanize people of other faith traditions, sexual orientation, ethnicity or gender the more we lack the very essence of what it means to follow Jesus. A good review of history proves this out to be true.

My hope is that the conservative branch of Christianity would take a long, cleansing breath and really buy the fact that God does not need defending. He is quite big enough to run the entire cosmos without another round of crusades...