Islam in the US victim of common fear tactics

Sitting through the atrocious exercise of reviewing the videos my friends share everyday on Facebook, I stumbled upon one that caught my attention.

The story here is that a couple of guys showed up with cameras to a Muslim Community Festival in Dearborn, Mi (which happens to be the city in the US with the highest ratio of muslims in the population) to ask questions about islam and more specifically about a pamphlet entitled : "What does Islam say about Terrorism?". Check out what happens.

The last 10 seconds of the clip are choking to me. How can somebody conclude from an encounter with some idiots who are not thinking straight that a religion that has a Billion followers, mostly peaceful, with some bad apples (many of them as of late, granted), is a threat to the United States?

These are right-wing style tactics used to inject fear. The intentions may be noble, asking questions is anybody's right, but the conclusions make me question the motives.

I decided to track the group of people who made the first video and it turns out that they posted another video later that explains what the issue was with the pamphlet (which wasn't clear to me in the first video). Here,they get into some kind of a rational dissection of the verse of the Koran that is quoted in the pamphlet. Watch on ...

I started thinking, who is actually this Nabeel Qureshi? Turns out the guy is a Christian convert who was formally Muslim. He started a group named Acts17 with this mission statement :

The mission of Acts 17 Apologetics Ministries is to glorify God by defending the Gospel of Jesus Christ from the ground up. We present evidence for the existence and attributes of God, the inspiration and historical reliability of the Scriptures, and the death, resurrection, and deity of Jesus Christ. We also refute the arguments of those who oppose the True Gospel, most commonly the arguments of Muslims and atheists.

When somebody clearly states that their mission is to refute arguments, you can consider that they may not be the most impartial individual to draw conclusions from the questions asked.

I see two issues with these videos :

• Somehow a large part of the muslim community just doesn't know how to dialogue. The first video shows people preventing the Act17 guys from doing what they planned to do peacefully. No harm intended but still the security guards are just stupid to mess with their equipment and harass them physically. Is this cultural? related to the average education-level? lack of freedom of speech in home countries? Probably a combination of the above.
• On the other side, it seems so easy to draw grandiose conclusions from incidents that happen all the time in public events like the one in Dearborn. When somebody comes up with an all encompassing conclusion like: "What's the US going to be like if the muslim population keeps growing? No FREEDOM of speech!". This is shaky at best and ridiculous in my opinion.

That being said, I don't get why nobody is presenting the counter-point to the statement Mr Qureshi is making. He's done his job to attract attention to his point of view, the muslim community should pay attention and use the proper tools to answer back.