salad wrote:
and am far too aware that the media exaggerates and tries to stir up hysteria.
There you go, youve just answered your own question, all you need to do now is find out own controls the media, go on, just Google it, then you will know who is behind the world hating Muslims, its the same with all wars, the first world war for instance, as soon as the Balfour Declaration was announced and they wanted America to join the war, all these stories about the evil Hun cutting off babies hands and corpse factories melting people down for soap came out in the media, ensuring the common folk would be stirred up enough to go and sacrifice themselves in a war, just like they do today in the Middle Eastern Wars, if the folk weren't told that Islam is evil and needs to be destroyed, folk might not want to join the Army.
Do a bit more research and maybe you will wonder if these "terrorist" you feel ashamed of, are not Muslims at all, but actually just the same people as the media folk who want to ensure their anti-Islam agenda is believed.
As for bashing the Bible, sure bash Christians, most are just Sun Worshipers at heart, but the Bible is also a Holy book to Muslims, maybe you just dont understand it?
For instance, your contradiction about seeing God, the scripture about no man can see God and live is a literal quote that the power of God is so immense that to look at it would physically destroy us, just like in the film Forbidden Planet were they had to look in a mirror to see the power of the machines, whereas the scripture about if you see Jesus, you have seen God, doesnt mean Jesus is God so that you have seen him, it means he is representing God to such a perfect extent, that if you see Jesus, you will know God because Jesus is acting exactly as his Father would.