I'm reading Moazzam Begg's Enemy Combatant, about this British national's experience from being caught up in a sweep in Afghanistan and held at Bagram and Guantanamo, to being freed in 2005 w/o charges. Here's a quote from Clive Stafford Smtih, his British death row lawyer talking to him, while Begg was in Gitmo:
In the US they have always hated black people, but never feared them. During the Cold War, they feared the Soviets, but never hated them. With the Muslim world, they fear you and hate you.
That seems to about sum it up for now.