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The country whose religion is Islam that is not a dictatorship is Turkey. Though far from perfect, Turkey even forbids women from wearing head scarfs. It is the Modern European face of Islam, and in many ways is the heir of the Romans.

And it is 5 times a day to pray. The other requirements of Islam include:
Assert that there is no G-d but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.
Pay the 1/40th of income alms to the poor.
Fast during Ramadan.
Travel to Mecca (the Haj) if possible once in your life.

Those are the 5 pillars of Islam.

Now, there is nothing there that makes anyone automatically nuts. On the other hand, the Wahabi version also requires medieval dress, men must wear a fist length beard, covering women, ectera. The counterpart are in Christianity; the Amish, in Judaism; the Hassidic Jews. But the Amish sure understand that their beliefs are optional. The Wahabi get more influence than they should because of two things:

1. They control the environs of Mecca.
2. They get lots of money from the oil revenues of the House of Saud.

We have the ability to marginalize the nutty ones by reducing our buy of oil (burn coal, work on Nuclear Energy, use domestic oil, use non-arabic oil sources.)

Marginal decreases in funding will have great influence in the amount of money the House of Saud will have to flow to the Wahabi. If there is a republican government in Arabia, they should have to get their funds from the Arab street, rather than from the concentrated wealth of a family which is buying internal peace by providing large donations to nut cases.

And my apologies to any nutcases that I have offended. In the US most Arabs are Christians, and most Muslims are black.

My records show that of 400M persons who attend one or more Islamic services in the USA in a typical week, only 30% or 120M are black [English speaking Afro American].

The other 70% are [nearly all] foreign-born usually Arab or Iranian persons classed as whites by the USA census.

It appears that nearly 2 million persons have some contact or occasional visits to mosques or other Islamic religious societies in USA, however, [this includes the 400M]... and that virtually none of these [except the 120M already mentioned] are Afro-American or Negro.