As I have noted before, I know, and have known, quite a few Muslims. Just to underscore the point, right before I came home, the last person I had a conversation with of any length or seriousness was a Muslim. On my way home, I stopped in a business, owned and operated by Muslims, and made several purchases.
A great deal of the problems connected with Islam and the integration of Muslims into western society were first raised to me by Muslims, who, by the way, unlike the leftys on these boards, don't seem to have any difficulties thinking critically about their faith and its problems or talking about them, even with non-Muslims such as me.
The presumption behind your question, Thunderbolt, is that being critical of Islam must be based on ignorance of Islam. That presumption is simply wrong. The real problem is not with recognizing some of the problems connected with Islam and with the difficulties of co-existence between Muslim and western communities but with the refusal to talk honestly about them, indeed, the refusal to talk about them at all, especially in order to sacrifice on the altar of identity politics, a misbegotten and dangerous idea if there ever was one.