This conflation of a fear of Islam and fear of muslims is insane.
"And (We sent) Lot when he said to his people: What! do you commit an indecency which any one in the world has not done before you? Most surely you come to males in lust besides females; nay you are an extravagant people. And the answer of his people was no other than that they said: Turn them out of your town, surely they are a people who seek to purify (themselves). So We delivered him and his followers, except his wife; she was of those who remained behind. And We rained upon them a rain; consider then what was the end of the guilty."
"The Prophet said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done."
Presumably a person can fear a literal interpretation of these verses gaining traction without holding any prejudice against individual muslims, right?
(To save someone the googling, I have a similar fear of the Christian analogue of that verse gaining traction. That doesn't mean I fear christians.
Pointing out the discrepancy in the polling data* with regards to these and other topics would also not be bigoted...)
Pretending that you can't draw a straight line from these texts to certain unacceptable actions/beliefs is not the way to stop racism and the claim that Islam needs to go through a reformation should not be a controversial one.
*Only in three countries do as many as one-in-ten Muslims say that homosexuality is morally acceptable: Uganda (12%), Mozambique (11%) and Bangladesh (10%).
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/t...iety-morality/