They said the same things about Catholics, yes, back in the early 1600s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plo

They said the same things about Catholics, yes, back in the early 1600s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot - but then Catholics changed, and for the better. They quit burning witches and heretics, quit doing the war-of-religion thing, began actively tolerating their Protestant neighbors, and so on and so forth. It's not like I'm trying to demonize anyone, but how do you assimilate a bunch of people whose whole shared cultural milieu is trying to hold them back to the worst parts of the Middle Ages? It's not an easy problem. Demonizing them all and looking for scapegoats would be the easy thing to do, actually - the paradox of tolerance is a thing after all. Can we do better? I think that's a worthwhile question to ask, while ignoring the issue altogether is totally useless and unproductive.