The overwhelming majority of Muslims living in America are peaceful, law-abiding people who mean no one any harm , and they don't even hate Jews .
But unfortunately, too many Americans are woefully ignorant about Islam , even though they think they know something about it . There are well over a billion Muslims in the world living all over the globe . They come from hundreds of different ethnic groups speaking hundreds of different languages and of all different skin colors . Arabs make up only about 15 % of the world's Muslims , and most Muslims do not speak Arabic , or only have a slight knowledge of it from traditional Muslim religious rites .
Muslims are not a monolithic thing, any more than Christians are . They do not all think alike or share the same views . A substantial number of them are not strictly observant at all , merely culturally Muslim .
Only a tiny number of Muslims are crazed fanatics who are determined to kill anyone who refuses to convert to Islam and want to turn the entire planet into an Islamic theocracy .
The vast majority are appalled by the barbaric acts committed by the fanatical minority .In Iran, for example, millions of Iranians hate the oppressive rule of the Ayatollahs and want to return to the relatively free Iran of the Shah in the years before Khomeini took the country over nearly 40 years ago .
The vast majority of Muslims living in America are normal people living normal lives . They are businessmen , doctors, lawyers, school teachers, college professors, scientists , entrepreneurs etc , and have made a great contribution to this country .
If you are a non-muslim US citizen born in this country , you have a far greater chance of being killed in a car crash or being struck and killed by lightning than being killed by one of the Muslims living in America .
There are so many Muslims in America who are profoundly grateful that they managed to escape tyrannical Islamic theocracies and were allowed to settle in this country .
Muslims in America are far more likely to be the VICTIMS of hate crimes by ignorant American bigots than to commit a crime of any kind . There have been too many examples of this in recent years .