I'm curious...to be a Muslim one must believe in one god (called Allah) AND, and this is a major AND, believe that Mohammad is god's prophet, and that everything Mohammad said and did, was sanctioned by god. Muslims must also believe that Mohammad was the example of a perfect man, the most perfect man who ever lived AND seek to emulate his life...that is what makes a good Muslim. Now, following this belief and seeing as Mohammad, who invented Islam, was an Islamist, a fundamentalist who was a liar, a thief, a sex-slave owing, rapist and was a misogynist, paedophile, and a psychotic murderer, how can one be a Muslim, believe in Mohammad and not emulate his life? I mean Mohammad's life is fundamental to Islam...Mohammad IS Islam and yet Muslims claim not to want to follow their prophet. Sorry, makes no sense. Islamists/fundamentalist Muslims do what they do because they are imitating Mohammad's life, as they are supposed to. I have no respect, no time for and absolutely no desire to befriend anyone who knows exactly what Mohammad was like and still chooses to follow him. Because to be a Muslim is to follow Mohammad. It speaks to character. I would never befriend or want anything to do with a person who, knowing what Hitler was like, chooses to admire, respect and follow him. It speaks to their character. I would never befriend or want anything to do with a person who willingly chooses to admire, respect and follow Stalin, or Mao, or Pol Pot or Idi Amin or King Leopold for what he sanctioned in the Congo. They are all the same to me. If Jesus Christ had lived a life like Mohammad did, if he had done what Mohammad did, then I would add Christians to the list too.
There are more people who leave Islam than is generally known, for their safety they are anonymous, or use another name. These people I respect; they learned what Mohammad was like and left Islam.
Anyway, I am sure someone bright spark will say that I am wrong, that Mohammad was really a nice, friendly, wonderful man. IUIs can say what they want. I judge a person by the people they respect, admire and follow.