Right-wing authoritarianism
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a personality and ideological variable studied in political, social, and personality psychology. Right-wing authoritarians are people who have a high degree of willingness to submit to authorities they perceive as established and legitimate, who adhere to societal conventions and norms, and who are hostile and punitive in their attitudes towards people who don't adhere to them. They value uniformity and are in favour of using group authority, including coercion, to achieve it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism
Because Muslims have a different religion, because they have different standards of dress and fashion, because they look different, because they have things that set them apart; this means hostility against them is OK, it's OK to have a government that is against them.
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Eliminationism
Eliminationism is the belief that one's political opponents are "a cancer on the body politic that must be excised—either by separation from the public at large, through censorship or by outright extermination—in order to protect the purity of the nation".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminationism
Some of the rhetoric posed by the right suggests this; "creeping shariah" conspiracy theories, Michael Flynn explicitly saying this, calling Muslims infiltrators, etc.
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System justification
System justification theory (SJT) is a theory within social psychology that serves a psychologically palliative function. It proposes that people have several underlying needs, which vary from individual to individual, that can be satisfied by the defense and justification of the status quo, even when the system may be disadvantageous to certain people. People have epistemic, existential, and relational needs that are met by and manifest as ideological support for the prevailing structure of social, economic, and political norms. Need for order and stability, and thus resistance to change or alternatives, for example, can be a motivator for individuals to see the status quo as good, legitimate, and even desirable.
According to system justification theory, people desire not only to hold favorable attitudes about themselves (ego-justification) and the groups to which they belong (group-justification), but also to hold positive attitudes about the overarching social structure in which they are entwined and find themselves obligated to (system-justification). This system-justifying motive sometimes produces the phenomenon known as out-group favoritism, an acceptance of inferiority among low-status groups and a positive image of relatively higher status groups. Thus, the notion that individuals are simultaneously supporters and victims of the system-instilled norms is a central idea in system justification theory. Additionally, the passive ease of supporting the current structure, when compared to the potential price (material, social, psychological) of acting out against the status quo, leads to a shared environment in which the existing social, economic, and political arrangements tend to be preferred. Alternatives to the status quo tend to be disparaged, and inequality tends to perpetuate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification
If you were someone with this view, it doesn't matter if you know individual Muslims who are genuinely wonderful people, it doesn't matter if you have Muslim coworkers, employees, or customers, it doesn't matter if you have a Muslim doctor; because of refugees coming in, because Muslims are the outgroup, and because of 9/11 and because we had a conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, it continues to justify making the entire class of Muslim into an enemy.
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