What he says is propaganda and you have been well suckered.
No, i am through atheist and out the other side. I was christian until i got so sick of Christians mocking disability that i jumped ship. Since then, and with the help of several other heinous episodes, i have fully read several bibles in an attempt to see what makes some christians such inhuman individuals and found the answers in those "holy" pages.
What you see as a defence of islam, isn't, I'm simply trying to put some perspective back. The majority of muslims are just like you and me, thy want to get on with life. There are a few, and it is only a few who become terrorists. Effort would be far better spent concentrating on stopping them than painting 1.5 billion people with hatred.