The most obvious common ground of the six major religions is compassion. Nobody's god advocates hate, or fear, or bigotry. Everybody's text has some ancient obsolete passages that do. It's the humans, the people who politicize religion within organizations, the bigots, zealots, and extremists who exploit religion to built their power, who preach hate. Jesus didn't and Mohammed didn't either. For those of who cherry pick religious scripts to justify hate, shame on you. 

Thanks for the editorial. I'm Christian. To my Muslim fellow Eugeneans I say I am so sorry that the deplorable state of our nation, and religious extremists who falsely claim to belong to your religion and ours, have subjected you to this kind of bigotry. May you have the peace and understanding that you deserve.