I think you've got the nationalists on to you. They claim to be all progressive and open-minded, but deep down nationalism always manifests itself like this. Same with the SNP, same with UKIP. Ultimately nationalism / separatism has to reach this point, people have to be 'othered', in order to create the bogeymen to rail against.

unionists love to compare scottish and welsh nationalism to enlgish/british nationalism as if hating muslims is in any way equivalent to hating the english (which scottish and welsh nationalists don't even. they just make jokes about english people and they're so sensitive they have to call "racism")