I sincerely hope you're never in a situation where you have to flee your country of citizenship, but if you are, you'll know then how cruel this sentiment is.
That said, I think cooler heads need to prevail out of all of this because it seems to me that there is a lot of effort being put into using cultural heterogeneity for destabilizing democratic societies. Democracies need to devise safeguards against such machinations, and relying simply on race or religion will not be enough.