Islamophobia is covertly state sanctioned in some western countries. The gloves came off so that the western populations did not identify with the victims overseas. Whilst hitting western Muslims is bad what will be worst in the long run is the hit to their own values and political security.
Excerpt from an article discussing Islamophobia in Britisg politics:
https://www.islam21c.com/politics/how-islamophobia-will-destroy-british-politics/
“Before being adopted as a tool for populist take-overs the most obvious reason Western governments had for promoting Islamophobia, and thereby dehumanising Muslims, was to reduce sympathy for those killed by the invasions of Muslim countries. But priorities change. The UK has extricated itself from most direct military involvement and returned to ‘just’ selling arms for other people’s wars. Thankfully, our new government’s Brexit priorities mean they have to deal more nicely with a wider world, including many developing Muslim nations. Just before Trump could twist her arm, Theresa May claimed “the days of the UK using military force to ‘remake sovereign countries in our own image’ were finished”.[7] Not sure “our image” is a devastated, infrastructureless, depleted uranium-covered wasteland or that the creation of such a place was a very “liberal interventionist foreign policy”. Nevertheless, it is a welcome indication of a change in direction that will have less need to dehumanise “the enemy” and less paranoid planning for an expected violent blow-back from the Muslims within.”