Is it a large group of towel heads?
Given the number of Muslims on the planet, if it was a large group there wouldn’t be a plane, bus or train left standing on the planet.
And the West didn’t do that to them in Iraq? Twice?
In unprovoked attacks, in the sense that the nations which attacked Iraq hadn’t been attacked by Iraq nor were at any risk of attack by Iraq?
How is it a ‘perverse faith’?
Islam largely accepts the old and new testaments, which are the basis of Judaism (the adherents of which have been persecuted by Christians for millennia) and Christianity (the adherents of various versions of which have been persecuted by the adherents of other versions of Christianity for at least one millennium).
What’s wrong with a martyr having a smile on his dirty face as he performs his act of martyrdom? For example, the Christian martyr Lawrence’s face was black by the time he laughed at his tormentors.
The Prefect of Rome, a greedy pagan, thought the Church had a great fortune hidden away. So he ordered Lawrence to bring the Church’s treasure to him. The Saint said he would, in three days. Then he went through the city and gathered together all the poor and sick people supported by the Church. When he showed them to the Prefect, he said: “This is the Church’s treasure!”
In great anger, the Prefect condemned Lawrence to a slow, cruel death. The Saint was tied on top of an iron grill over a slow fire that roasted his flesh little by little, but Lawrence was burning with so much love of God that he almost did not feel the flames. In fact, God gave him so much strength and joy that he even joked. “Turn me over,” he said to the judge. “I’m done on this side!” And just before he died, he said, “It’s cooked enough now.” Then he prayed that the city of Rome might be converted to Jesus and that the Catholic Faith might spread all over the world.
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=366
I think there is.
One point of comparison is that each side had the arrogant belief that the other is sub-human or primitive or naturally violent, when there is plenty of evidence that they both are.