Hello.@mdkberry...
I am a Muslim man and I want to start with the first thing: I am Muslim but I respect your opinion....
It is not strange for me to hear this because I have read a lot about these subjects... The reason is you are all taking information from the media who try to distort Islam..... You can install translation tools in Google Chrome and search in Arabic... And you will know that all you hear about Islam is a lie.
I just want to show you some points:

There is a reason why there are so many Muslim refugees - Islamic countries are not great places to live.

Islamic countries are very rich in oil and are dominated by European countries and the United States, which make their people live in poverty while stealing oil from under their feet... It means the Islamic countries are poor because secular countries steal their natural wealth.

Important point: The problem is not in Islam. The problem in the Muslims....
There is no country now applying the teachings of Islam. The opposite is true. All Islamic countries fight Islam...
Turkey is a secular, not Islamic country. You have to correct this.

I wrote earlier about Saudi Arabia and it is a Zionist state that uses religion to spread terrorism and chaos in the Islamic world...
https://steemit.com/politics/@yagoub/the-only-relation-between-saudi-arabia-and-islam

In the Middle Ages, Islamic countries applied the teachings of Islam. This is why there was prosperity in the Islamic world and it is considered the golden age of Muslims
There was no racism against non-Muslims... There were Christian ministers in Islamic countries and Christians living with Muslims peacefully although the Muslims were the ones controlling the world.
Most of the modern sciences were founded by Muslims and then the Europeans benefited from this... The best guide is x... Search the Internet for the reason of using the X in mathematics ...and the origin of algebra, algorithms, medicine and chemistry. All these words are Arabic..

how about slavery?
Quite the opposite... Islam fought slavery... Slavery was widespread before the advent of Islam and when Islam came it was difficult to make people abandon slaves so most of the ways of forgiveness in Islam were to give freedom to slaves.....The first person to be Prayer call in a mosque is a black man named Bilal... You can find his story.
And the Prophet Muhammad did not have any slave .

For the marriage of the Prophet Muhammad with Aisha 9 years.... This was normal 14 centuries ago because the child is an adult in 9 years... my grandmother married 12 years old...
You can compare your father when he was 14 years old with a child 14 years old now. The difference is very clear...

Don't forget, my friend. There are 2 billion Muslims in the world.... If Islam calls for terrorism, ' you will inevitably die. '
The number of innocent people killed by the USA in the last 30 years is more than the number of innocent people killed by all the groups accused of terrorism.
In most countries where there is terrorism, Muslims die, not non-Muslims.... And all the wars that exist in these countries because of the USA intervention with the help of Saudi Arabia to spread chaos and steal oil and protect Israel..
Iraq was a safe country and then became a country full of terror because of the USA intervention...
Syria was a safe country and then became a country full of terror because of the Saudi, American and Russian intervention...
Libya was a safe country and then became a country full of terror because of the French and NATO intervention.
Mali was a safe country and then became a country full of terror because of the French intervention.

Who lit the First World War?
Who lit the Second World War?
Who threw the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima?
Who killed 20 million Australian natives?
Who wiped out over 100 million Native Americans in North America?
Who has wiped out more than 50 million Red Indians in South America?
Who took more than 180 million people from Africa as slaves, 77% of whom died on the buried road in the Atlantic Ocean?
Are they Muslims?

The thing you should know: The main reason for the spread of terrorism and the distortion of Islam is Israel... The Zionists took control of all the governments of the Islamic countries and spread wars and chaos to protect Israel and stealing their oil... Remember this well...