It's because the Islamophobia of the past 40 or something years has built an infrastructure that demonizes any Muslim affiliated group, and people automatically assume the worst of Hamas even though they know nothing about them, this is why it was so easy for them to lie about the 40 beheaded babies and the rape and whatever else the Hasbara said, but to comfort you, Hamas is as progressive as most third world center-parties, it doesn't do anti-communist action, they've said they're willing to participate in a parliamentary democracy.
You can read the 2017 charter https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full They're not leftists or secularists, but they're not ISIS, hell they're not even Saudi Arabia
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