I live in a muslim country. I think I could qualify you as an "armchair sociologue". You don't know anything about living in their countries, or how they really treat peoples. You merely think you know them because you opened a book and read the most extremist exemples of their society. It's like thinking all Germans are like Hitler.
When I was in Iraq and on my way south, a Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) lieutenant told me, while holding me for two hours at a checkpoint (for which I do not blame him), that I was to his knowledge the first Jew in the region since the 1930s (he was wrong but close) and that I should tell anyone my religion further south.
And I was a student at the University of Haifa when Hizbullah shelled the city (and the university).
A friend of mine, a student rabbi studying in Jerusalem, also travelled to the Negev to meet Sudanese refugees from Darfur whose villages had been erased from the face of the earth by government-supported militias.
And while I was in Iraq Kurdish officials showed me one of Saddam's secret police headquarters, the holding cells, the torture chambers, a gallery of pictures of gas attack victims (civilians, women and children), and a rope from Abu Ghraib formerly used to execute non-Arabs en masse.
Books do not tell us those stories yet, generally. And if anybody dared to write a book about these things, be sure there will be death threats against the author (and liberals will accuse him of racism). A few books about it have been written, but the authors need police protection now.
I am not aware of any author who wrote a book about the "evils" of Israel, even if he makes them up, needing police protection from angry Jews or the Israeli government.
Living in a Muslim country doesn't help you understand the problem. You need to be a victim to understand. The Germans who lived in Germany under Hitler also didn't understand the problem. They honestly didn't know (or didn't want to know) what happened to all the Jews and Gipsies who had suddenly vanished. Similarly some people in Arab countries slowly realise that there aren't as many Jews and Christians (or, in the case of Sudan, non-Arab blacks) around as there used to be. In the case of Iraq the Jews were attacked and fled in the 1930s and 1950s (while Iraq itself was allied with Germany in 1942). The Christians are now fleeing north into the Kurdish region.
Now, I have lived in Germany. I grew up there. I can tell you that many people have pretty much the same opinion about Israel as Hitler had. And the stories about the Jews are still the same. Plus it is still accepted as a given that what an Arab says is the truth and what Israel or the IDF say must be viewed with at least some suspicision, to be fair.
Did you know that during the entire invasion of Gaza ALL the news originated from Arab sources? Israel doesn't release anything to the press, except for the odd video showing terrorists shooting from hospitals or boobytrapped schools. But do news sites report all these things as FACT or as "something Hamas claimed"? Are IDF announcements treated likewise as fact? If they are, wouldn't the media constantly contradict themselves?
Living in a Muslim country as such won't help you understand the problem. But try being a Jew or a Massalith or a Kurd or a Berber in an Arab country.
You would understand.
