I was going to ignore this as one of your sophistry laden posts, but the third paragraph caught my eye. I commend you on acknowledging the problems within your community. I condemn you for trying to "no true Scotsman" it away.
The rest of my reply I'll preface by saying you won't find me commenting on topics on which I'm ignorant. Israel and economics come to mind.
I know Antarctica is cold and penguins live there. I've watched documentaries, did some reading and know people who've been there.
I know people from the UK. I've talked to them face to face. Just last week I had a business lunch with a fellow from Pakistan who lived in London as well as the UAE. My next door neighbours name is Mo (wonder what that stands for) and we do business. Calgary is a very diverse city and I know plenty of Muslims. More than a few have mentioned the pressure to "reform" to the old times. A lady from Gana (Guinea?) told me of the pressure to cover up while a kafir and her were working side by side on her project. My niece couldn't socialize with her best friend in front of his family until she was married. CBC (a very liberal outlet) ran a story on the fundamentalization of local mosques. A Bosnian dude was telling me of the pressure to quit drinking socially and to grow a beard. I've seen a lampshade move and realized the customer made his wife cover up because I was there. I know more of your religion than many of Islams followers to boot. Gtfoh with your impllication that criticism equals ignorance.
You assume and excuse make too much.
The fact that you cite individual examples of interactions with Muslims as some sort of justification for the broad generalisations often repeated on sherdog is telling.
You claim to know much but resort to Wikipedia links to disprove my claim about most mosques being mundane places of worship with nothing particularly interesting happening within. As an experiment this would be fairly easy to disprove. You just have to visit different mosques and see for yourself.
You also dropped a lot of strawmans in your post. You claim I use the no true scotsman fallacy to defend my position. A cursory glance at my posts will show it is not true. I don’t deny the “Muslim-ness” of a radical or a gang member - I dispute the fact that Islam is necessarily the motivating factor for certain actions.
These are multi-variant problems with many layers but some sherbros can’t look beyond the surface. When I spoke about the problem of ISIS recruitment for example I mentioned religion is often used as a unifying factor but sometimes it’s political grievances that drive people into that direction- and when you add the curse of khawarjism into the mix, it turns even more dangerous. I suppose some would place the cult of khawarjism at the door of Islam but I would dispute that.