"...Muslims are not our enemy. Terrorists are. Period."
There is one complication with such a simplistic and starry-eyed outlook...
Islam encourages its adherents to wage Holy War and to come to the defense of all their co-religionists under a variety of conditions and circumstances, including simple criticism of its precepts and practices and its founder.
No other surviving mainstream religion contains such enjoinders which remain operative on a broad-spectrum basis across their domains.
This difference renders Islam far more susceptible to use as a Spiritual Rationalization to wage war and to kill and to commit violence than its counterparts across the globe.
This, in turn, serves to present Islam as a Poison Pill and Warrior's Creed and Political System to the rest of the world, in the guise of a so-called Religion of Peace.
Your words are seductively attractive, and all people of goodwill are likely to wish that this was true, but the Realists of the world realize that there is something not-quite-right with that blanket statement.
Or so it seems to this observer...
This is the same tired BS argument over and over and over and over and over. We've heard it for years: "when
they do it they're following their book; when
we do it it's some wackaloon
not following the book". You guys want it both ways:
we collectively aren't responsible for a few deviants but
they collectively are. That argument has never been valid, and doesn't fix itself by getting repeating it over and over.
You can run the same bad play out on the field again and again; it's still a bad play and it's still going to fail. What is it they say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
It's the same argument as "well,
my religion is 'the one true faith'" (pronounced by each one). Sure it is. Mine is too.