Ahmed,
Islam is not a peacefull religion. What the western world thinks of when we think of Islam is as the most savage fascist religion full of hatred for anyone who does not believe. It is a religion who stones its women to death. A religion who whips its rape victims. A religion who brainwashes its children to kill themselves. A religion who beheads journalists, korean charity workers and threatens their own people with death for having minds of their own. We see it as a religion who does not promote creativity, inventiveness, intellectual thoughts or pursuits outside the koran, equality for women, and which fills each new generation with unbridled hatred for other people. All this hatred does nothing for your Islam but make us distrust it further.
So Abu, THIS is the Islam you, as Muslims, have shown the entire rest of the world and none of it appears peacefull.
If Islam wants respect, Islam needs to show respect.
