That's fine, just don't have your response leave them able to label you as the bad guy.
People need to start reading through the Quran. It's eye opening I tell ya. I have always heard about much of what it says and tended to dismiss my fellow 'right wing conspiracists' when they told me that it advocates openly the killing of Christians, Jews, and really any others who don't "convert to Islam" and a belief in "Allah."
So after 9/11 I read it myself from several sources to make sure they agreed! Guess what I found out? I found out that it's even worse than those fellow 'right wing conspiracists' told me!
Those quotes from above are directly from the Quran. If that isn't enough to scare the bejeebers out of Americans into taking some sort of action to put an immediate halt to Islam in this country, then I don't know what is and this country deserves what it has in a decade or two. Violence, terrorist activity originating en masse out of our own country, a country like the ME countries, and what very well may develop into a civil war.
Meanwhile, the muslims keep pushing their luck. Do what I'm gonna start doing when someone tells me their a muslim. Look them in the eyes and ask them to explain to you why they hate you (assuming you're a non-muslim)! Go ahead, ask, and then see what they say!
I'm sure it'll be like "I don't hate you ..." followed by a litany of soft nonsense. Well, it doesn't matter what they say, because their belief says that they do, or should. So then follow that up with 'why are you a muslim if you don't hate me' and agree with the Quran?
Good luck! It may not be long before questions like that are met with a bullet to your head.