I know a LOT of religious people read the dirtbagchronicles.com. You are going to be momentarily offended by me. Get past it and listen.
If I was a Muslim I wouldn't trust Christians any more than Christians trust Muslims. That's because any organized religion that embraces an exclusive path to an afterlife is always dangerous to every other religion.
Fort Hood killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted 'Allahu Akbar' before mowing down unsuspecting soldiers, and that makes him no more, or less, of a total fucking dirtbag. It just builds on the stereotype that Muslims don't like non-Muslims and are eager to supplement their march to heaven with staggering violence. So I don't like them now. I'm the kind of guy that doesn't feel bad about projecting the actions of a few onto their entire group. I'm just lucky in that regard.
"Soldiers who witnessed the rampage reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander." - AP
Marketing a religion is hard work. You have to convince millions of rubes that an all powerful, yet totally absent, God needs you (yes you!) to contribute money and commit senseless acts to further his cause. Then you need the public relations horsepower to spin the actions of a shit head like Hasan into a recruiting tool. Christians can't take the moral high ground on this either, your religion is based on a horribly f***** up history of violence and persecution.
When Christians work on converting me (it happens almost as often as gays try to convert me) the conversation usually goes like this:
"God's love for you is infinity and beyond. His is the way of pure peace." - Them
"More people have been killed in the name of [insert the name of their God here] than by Hitler." - Me
"I feel sorry for you. God hates you, and you will burn in hell for infinity and beyond." - Them
In God We Trust. And I'm only taking half doses of my medicine lately.