Nope, Poncho, I'm not. I'm judging islam by its tenets and doctrines; I'm judging its followers by whether they actually follow those tenets or not. Same as we judge fellow "Christians" by whether they actually follow Christianity or not.I have never said that all the people who to use your word "ascribe" to Islam are the same.
You (like almost everyone else here) seem to be judging Islam by it's followers.
The only reason I jumped into this was to debate the statement "Spending time with Muslims does not make one an expert on Islam." To which you've explained with your statement "I have never said that all the people who to use your word "ascribe" to Islam are the same." Spending time with muslims makes one more of an expert than, say, a reporter who goes over, does a 30-second sound bite, then gets back on the plane -- and the reason it makes one more of an expert, is because you see how people actually think, feel, and live islam.