I wasn't actually equating the US with the Muslim world. I was pointing out that using the violence in the Middle East as a condemnation of the entire Muslim religion is insane. It's not Islam or the K'oran, it is the nutjobs who alter the meaning of the words within the scriptures to endorse their violence. If you switch Islam with Christianity in the Middle East, the same nutjobs would find passages from the Bible to endorse their violence. And unfortunately, due to the lack of effectiveness and organization in the governments, those religious nutjobs have been allowed to gain power. The religion of Islam is not at fault, it is the people who misinterpret and abuse it.