One billion Muslims in the world, eighty percent of them living outside of the Middle East. Even if the entire Muslim population of the Middle East behaved as these guys did, which they do not, their behavior would still be an aberration in the Muslim world.
The six nations in the world with the highest number of Muslims are (in sequence): Indonesia (Republic), Pakistan (federal republic), India (federal republic), Bangladesh (parliamentary democracy), Turkey (republican parliamentary democracy), and Egypt (republic)...all fairly stable nations. The last four nations making up the top ten nations in the world in Muslim population are Iran (theocratic republic), Nigeria (republic transitioning from military to civilian rule), Ethiopia (federal republic, oldest independent country in Africa, and one of the oldest in the world - at least 2,000 years), and Morocco (constitutional monarchy).
The "Muslim world" isn't Syria, and Chechnya, and Sudan...they're the aberrations giving the rest of the Muslims a bad name.
Luis, I'm entirely aware of the demographic spread of the Islamic world, thank you. The listing of the Demographics hardly establishes your point. Syria, Chechnya, and Sudan
are hardly what brings Islam into disrepute--they are consonant with 14 centuries of Islamic history and Muslim behavior all around the world today.
If you cannot recognize the obvious, or are in a contained-hysteria denial-of-reality, further discussion about it with someone on a message board forum is not going to influence your opinion. I'm sure you've been involved with these discussions before and simply refused to accept what others are telling you. Being wrong on a key issue like this is what brings people to a morally inverted view of reality--like the European's ideological outlook today.