@Philip: Sometimes frequently pissing people off is indicative of a low social/emotional intelligence. Other times you just need to be brutaly honest to help people becoming more self-aware and, above all, in order to express your own needs which is important for your own peace of mind. For example, in Germany where I am from (saito is not my real name) people usually are extremly politically correct and this absurd tolerance goes so far that one politician who therefore wrote a book called "Germany abolishes itself" [translation] was noticed to leave his job and is criticized by pretty much everyone; sometimes they even throw him out of restaurants etc. How tolerant is that?! Not at all. It's a dictatorship of tolerance.

On topic: the islam has various different stand points of views. Dangerous extremists, even atheists and very very tolerant practioners etc.. You can't put all those people into one category such as "low" or "savage."