I do not think that education removes religious bias. If that was the case why do some Muslims/Hindus/sikhs face bias in west where literacy is 95-100%. It is the ignorance about others religion that does that. Only way is let the people mix i.e talk to people from other religions be friends with them. Easy way is to take children on educational trips to say Masjid/Mandir/Church/Gurudwara/Synagouge. When they interact become friends the hatred goes away
Some people just do not like foreigners, and this could mean Muslims, Hindus or simply someone who is from a different neighbouring village, so while focus is being made on race religion sexuality or whatever by the press, the core is that the recipient is just not part of the "team". Most big fights are between football supporters anyway.
The countries of Islam are not getting any good press in the West. The general perception is that muslims hate their guts. Cut throats of any innocent westerner they can get their hands on, especially they focus on any westerner that tries to provide aid to Muslims. Muslims blow themselves up if they cannot get close, treat women really awful and need to start abiding to things like the Geneva Convention. Then there are whitewashers which cannot see any problems at all with Islam, which pisses everyone else off.
This is a rough caricature, but in general this is the picture you get from Western papers.
After the Tsunami hit Thailand there was a lot of people that collected money for the Thais.
When the Earthquake hit Pakistan a few years later, the same type of collection was attempted
but not a lot of people contributed. My guess is that the reason is - why send money to people
that hate you regardless. Clearly Pakistan has an issue with is image.
Contacts between people may help, but the Quran says that believers should not
try to get friends among the unbelievers (3:114). On the other hand there are
few or no Muslims in the West since (3:27) seems to say that you cannot be a Muslim in
a non-Muslim country. Luckily not every "Muslim" is learned so friendship may work after all.