So are you the troll and I the putz or vice versa?
Yahia, what you have just done is one of the things this non-Muslim finds especially distressing. Rather than hear what is shared with you as something worthy of reflection, it feels like you have simply dismissed my observations out of hand. Not all attacks against non-Muslims are violent in nature, sometimes they are expressed in words or in the conveyance of a closed-off attitude.
You should judge a Religion, in particularly Islam by it's teachings not by it's followers. Were all human at the end of the day, we do make mistakes and things such as ignorance, hypocrasy and evil desires can sometimes sway minds away from the real deen.
Yes, some Muslims who I rather label as hypocrites do take things to the extreme and go against teachings of the Sunnah/Quran and try to justify actions behind the "Islam Title", you can call them bad seeds if you like, but every religion or group shall I say has bad seeds. There are also those that are "slightly misguided", but that's usually down to human error or a direct misunderstanding.
Point is, Islam's root teachings do no promote violence against other people or races. Yes, it does allow a person to be violent, but that's only under special circumstances. These circumstances might I add go together with "basic human nature", in other words, self-defence. Animals will always struggle(fight) to protect not only themselves but also their cubsin a bid to survive. Humans are no different, if we are being attacked, or oppressed then we will by natural human instincts fight against the oppression. Any other form of fighting is against Islams teachings. I have absolutly no doubts about this, no way nearly 2 Billion people are following this religion because it encourages violence, with the exception of few, no one likes real unconditioned violence in this world.
Regarding negative expression of words, again this goes against the fundemental teachings of Islam.
"Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious." – Qur’an English Translation [16:125]
When you look at countries today like Indonesia, China, parts of Africa, Malaysia - some of these places have the largest Muslims population in the world, yet not a single Muslim army set foot on their lands. Only merchants/traders who preached the religion through rightoues and peaceful manners did it spread throughout the countries. On top of this, many established hadiths support the fact that as a Muslim, bad words and negativity should never come out from his/her mouth.
I suppose your main concern might not be the teachings, but the fact that somehow there are people that are being "influenced" shall we say in a negative manner that could be dangerous to yourself or others in a violent sense, right? Ofcourse you should realise that people in different religions are influenced by different things, I could likewise say some Christians are influenced by the Crusaders etc. As far as Islam goes, these misguided people can only be guided back to the right teachings of its religion, as its obligatory for every Muslim to guide their brother/sisters who have astrayed. Those that transgress laws get punished, according to their state laws.
I remember reading a article and it highlighted that, when people read the Quran they can try to make out of it what "they want". So if someone is clearly looking for any negatives in the Quran, then they'll certainly make that of it. Most, usually don't seek any knowledge on the meanings of verses and when they put it up against a Muslim and the Muslim tells them that they are either intepretting it wrong or taking it out of context, the non-believer is so secluded in their own intentions that they'll narrow mindedly won't accept such a justification as an answer. Ofcourse it's usually the one who's more open minded that will get a click in their brain and not ignore the overwhelming amount of positives/peace teachings the book contains. And you can say whether something is violent or peaceful, it should be catagorized under one. Some who misintepret/brainwashed will put it under violent/evil, others will think a bit and say, something can't contradict like this, it can't tell you to "give to charity, help the elderly/widow, respect your parents, have tolerance, take in orphans etc in one chapter and then tell you to kill people in another chapter", it just doesn't make sense. There has to be a meaning behind one of them which justify's it, and most obviously it's likely to be the one which you percieve to "encourage" violence. The person will then further research these verses and clear the doubt and put Islam's mainstream and proper teachings under the Peace catagory.
In the end, I just think it is pretty unfair to pin violence on Muslims, when what we are meant to follow certainly contradicts this. The majority of the Muslims in the world do not encourage violence, not by words or actions. Islam didn't spread through violence, over 80% of the muslims in the world are non-arabs (arab lands is where Islam orginated from). It is only people who believe otherwise that usually judge a religion by acts of a small minority of it's followers, which I think in all moral senses is wrong.
