Painting the opposition as inhuman monsters whose only desire is irrational genocide so that they're totally justified in killing them all and taking their stuff?
Why do you guys suppose that is?
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Hypothetical here:
If you believed you and your fellows were a divinely-chosen breed of animal, endowed as superior, enlightened and promised future paradise by your creator, it's only a small step from casting every one and everything else as inhuman monsters who must be stopped or subjugated.
You might even write into your scriptures that those lesser beings should pay a tax to you just to bask in your greatness.