Let's have another attempt at engaging in these lovely forum discussion things.
Guys, please don't judge Islam if you know next to nothing about it! To me, it seems that CroakandDagger is the only one that really knows what he is talking about. Prado and Tom, if the muslims you have met in your life gave you the illusion that Islam is peaceful, then this could be due to observer bias. Since muslims interact more often with non-muslims when they are more moderate, the muslims you interact with have a tendency to be more moderate than the general muslim population. Also, like CroakandDagger pointed out, it is not like muslims just tell everybody about their more controversial beliefs.
If people want to learn about Islam, I can recommend reading their holy texts, like the Koran and the Hadith. You don't even need to read the whole thing; picking some random passages to read can already give you a quite accurate picture. The Koran is filled with so many hateful passages that they are very hard to miss.
Also, it is quite revealing to note that muslims, by their holy texts, are actually instructed to lie to non-muslims about their beliefs. Whenever you therefore see a muslim on television telling a western journalist that 'Islam is a religion of peace', this does not automatically imply that he means it. Only when muslims are telling each other that Islam is a religion of peace, they mean it. But this is not what if often said in mosques.
If you want to learn about Islam, it can also help to look at places where Islam is actually practised. There seems to be a positive correlation between a country having Islam as its main religion and that country being absolute shit. I wonder why that might be the case.
Let me tell one anecdote about gays to stay ontopic. Please watch the following 1-minute long clip of CNN (it is half a year old):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCcokTJICA
The video is quite characteristic. What CNN failed to report was that the attackers were muslim youths. As a matter of facts, it are always muslims - native Dutch people just don't do such things. But that is politically incorrect to say. Also, unfortunately, holding hands is not really a solution. The first step to a solution would be to address the cause - the same cause that is responsible for renewed violence against Jews and much of the sexual harassment against women, at least in Europe - but there are only few people brave enough to do so.
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