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I don't know about this one man.
I'm sure that most common day Muslims are fine normal people that live their lives as decently as anyone else.
And there are crazy ass Christians and Jews and Buddhists out there of course. But the kind of crazy levels Muslims can attain are astronomical!
I mean... The dress code of women alone are just out of this world...
Extremists are extremists.
Everyone’s got crazies.
Muslims as you said.
For Christian’s in the US they are the largest terrorist group.
https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s894/BILLS-116s894is.xml
For Jews (I am Jewish and Half Israeli) look at the current Israeli administration.
Frankly it doesn’t matter what religion, dogma, ideology, or doctrine you follow. Replace label X with Y. Someone will always take the rhetoric to far.
A lot of that has more to do with modern politics than with religion, most of that is a reaction to Western Imperialism. Look at the way women dressed in the 50s and 60s in Tehran. Even Indonesia, the country with more Muslims than anywhere on earth had a female prime minister before Hilary even ran.
There's definitely a lot of crazy ass Muslims as well as Jews, Christians and Buddhists like you mentioned. However, I think the fear is irrational. Most of them just want to raise a family and live life. There's extremists in all groups: every race, every religion, every political belief system, etc. This doesn't mean that the minority extremists should define the majority.
I love to read. As a young teen, I read lots of religious texts. As an autistic teen I found religious people illogical and wanted to understand them better. Old / new testament, buddhist dhamapada, hindu vedas, quran AND hadith (you need to read the hadith to understand historical context of many surah).
I've also lived amongst muslims for most of my life. Taken at face value, it's a horrible, divisive, violent religion and imo with exception of some genuinely peaceful sects (eg ahmadi, who are considered not real muslims by majority) is not very compatible with modern western societies.
Everyone should take the time to read the quran, educate yourselves. Learn which surah are abrogated by later ones, and which parts majority sects live their lives by. You might be shocked or surprised. FWIW I think all fundie religions are incompatible with modern western societies, before you think I'm singling islam out.
My favourite excerpt from islamic texts is from hadith, might not have it word for word but it's when Mohammed wants a new wife, suddenly gets a commandment from god that it's allowed, and his wife (Aisha) says "Oh how your god rushes to fulfil your whims". Even she knew it was bullshit.