Guest, Outraged - you are a practing bigot. In every incident that you mention, you could subsitute "male", "teenager" or "left-handed" instead of "Muslim". Instead, you chose to focus on the word "Muslim" because you are ignorant of the religion.   Yes, these incidents involved zealots who corrupted the teaching. The same can be said for Christians and Jews.

If I called your mother a whore and said your father slept with pigs, would you strike out at me? Probably.