Perhaps the real problem I have with Islam is that I already know more about it than I wish I did.

My understanding shows me a religion based on the rantings of a self anointed pedophile who claimed to be a god. It shows me a religion that intermingles faith, morality, law and governance as an all-in-one dangerous preponderance of sociopathic principles. And it shows me a religion that not only is not accepting of other faiths, but even allows lying to and killing of those outside their faith and neatly all not only allowed but sanctioned in the name of their god as just and righteous.

Knowing all the above is included in Islam, why would any sane person feel a need to offer an olive branch or embrace any type of acceptance of their faith?

You can stand on the outside of the tank at Sea World and marvel at a great white shark, having studied it long and hard, knowing full well the beauty you see before you and the deadliness it also encompasses, but ... are you gonna take all that understanding and try to jump in and make friends with this fearsome predatory animal? Does the knowledge we have of great white sharks mean we are jaded in choosing not to do so, or just wise enough to know better?

The divide between Islam and western civilization IS an idealogical one, of that I'm more than sure. The question is not how do WE idealogically deal with it, the question is simply how can we as civilized people protect ourselves FROM it because this great white is not safely on the other side of a thick pane of glass but is loosed among us in the same world we all live in together