It is human nature to exaggerate the positive qualities of your friends and to deny or minimize their negative qualities.
With enemies, it's the opposite. We exaggerate their negative qualites and deny or minimize their positive qualities.
Buford, you deny or minimize problematic Christians and you deny or minimize that positive Muslims exist.
It's something we all do. Buddhists call this attachment and aversion.
Where I'm coming from, is that I have no problem with how Islam is practiced in the US, and I have problems with how it is practiced by the Taliban, by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and many other Middle Eastern countries.
I say Islam is NOT inherently evil, because American Muslims are not automaticall evil. Many of them are just like other Americans. We call them neighbors, co-workers, citizens and friends.