Religion is defining in the middle East, while the West has pursued a mentality of equivalence of religion, and the two mindsets could not be further apart. Mixing the two just won't work, and it's idealistic thinking that it does when plainly it can't happen. No other followers of any other religion riot over cartoons, or place a fatwa on a Salman Rushdie for writing a work of fiction. Xtianity couldn't give a stuff if someone jokes about Jesus. This is the defining difference between a violent death cult as compared to any other religion. And don't give me that bullshit about extremist being in the minority. As Erdogan has said himself, there's no such thing as moderate Muslims.
So what? The same has been said both by and about Christians too:
The fundamentalist Christians I've known won't even associate with moderate Christians. In fact they claim there is no such thing as a moderate Christian. They accept nothing moderate. The two words are mutually exclusive. A moderate cannot be a Christian and a Christian cannot be a moderate.
- Thomas Hugh Goodson, Jr.,
Autopsy, Anatomy of Survival
Recall that there is no such thing as a 'moderate Christian'. The biggest enemy of the Christian Brotherhood is all around and practically goes unchallenged and for the most part unnoticed. It is political correctness. This subtle enemy manifests itself whenever Christian values and Bible teachings are compromised or marginalized for the sake of pacifying the few.
- Walt Thrun,
America's Vision vs. God's Standard of Justice
When you limit your research to seeking only information that supports your preconceptions, you do yourself and your audience an injustice. Islam sucks, for sure; but it is not unique nor especially extreme in that regard. Religion sucks, and those who wish to set Islam apart as particularly sucky do so, not because of the evidence, but despite it.