Islam=Quran+Sunnah
Islam is the everyday discussion and the mass media profit for today. After what happened in this century in Arabic countries (so called Islamic countries) of wars and killing and destructions. Because these countries are managed and leaded by so called Muslim Leaders and Muslim governors, and it said to be mostly populated by Muslims. Thus, Islam is a set of all morals that humans should have and a set of rules that help them manage their lives easily and that make them live with each other despite the different languages, cultures and beliefs. Islam is totally what's in Quran and what the last messenger of Allah Muhammad (salla Allah aleih wa sallam) teaches us.
During human being life in earth, since the beginning, he learnt how to be selfish and how to get everything he wants by force when others don't want to submit. And the start was when Cain killed Abel because he wants Abel's wife to be his despite that he knows that it's already meant to be as it is. Meaning He knows that Abel will not give him his wife that Allah (the creator) decided for him because Abel's sacrifice to Allah was better than what Cain gave as sacrifice to his lord (Allah). So, Cain was furious and upset about the result without paying attention to his previous actions. Then, without reflecting on himself and on his deeds, he made the worse action and the worse decision ever by killing his brother Abel just because Abel chose to submit to Allah and to do whatever Allah asked him to, while Cain rejected to submit even if he knew he wouldn't change anything, but anger made him make the worse reaction ever that made him live in regret all his life.
Since then, human beings learnt to be stupid and to just care about their own benefits and to care only about themselves and to do everything they want with know limit. As well, since then Allah sent His prophets and messengers from human beings amongst us to teach us what Allah is recommending from us to do for ourselves and for our good paying attention to how we are dealing with and treating each other, and most importantly to stay away from anything that makes us lose control over our brains and what makes us loose our consciousness especially anger, and including wine and alcohol.
So, when you look at it easily and with clear thinking out of any anger, out of any haters, out of any information coming from different sources, you will find and agree at that all human being can kill and make crimes for many reasons as well as for no reasons. And you will find that religions, rules, laws are not responsible for what people do, but people are the ones responsible for their wrong doings by breaking all good teachings especially morals that all religions teach, as well by breaking laws that have been made by non believers to make people's life safe. so, both religions and laws are made for people, but people chose either to believe and follow them or not to do so. Meaning we can only blame people for what they chose despite all the options they had and despite being aware that they are choosing the wrong thing to do. On the other hand, many people chose to understand things, including religious books and teachings, their own ways which made them fall into big mistake of misinterpretation. And that's the reason behind the all misunderstanding happening in the world about religions and bout the truth of religious books.
Everything is actually clear and easy to know and understand, if only we have the real will and desire to get the knowledge and to get to know the truth. we just need to set our mind and clear it from anything we got convinced about with no evidence and with no reasoning. And of course, and this century of Hollywood, it is so easy to create and made up evidence through cameras and good actors who can even be witnesses of something didn't happen, but they are just following the script they have got from the great writers who are trying to make the world as a big Hollywood that makes them enjoying watching the real actions of killing, bombing, raping people and destroying whole countries that they don't live in. So, just use your brain correctly and clearly, because you have the same brain Allah gives to all humans including prophets and messengers of Allah, including presidents and kings and leaders, including scientists and scholars, and including Cain and Abel. It's all your choice what do you want to be and what do you want to follow and act for.
Particularly speaking, about Islam, Islam is way far from what media and ignorant people saying, and its not as they have explained Quran to make people believe that it is an evil thing, and its not like many Muslims are acting according to what they think, and according to their cultures and according to what they desire for. And I say Sunnah (which is and Arabic word means a way or a teaching) because it is what the messenger of Allah teaches us throughout explaining the Quran the exact way Allah mean it, especially that the last messenger of Allah Muhammad (salla Allah aleih wa sallam) has the revelation of Quran so he was acting as Quran as well he was always explaining every tinny detail about Islam and about how we should act and what we should do according to what Allah wants us to do to live a relaxed life where we are aware about everything we do and trying the best to do good for each other, for all mankind, for animals and even for nature and the earth including trees, water, rocks, worms....etc
We are all human beings, mankind, we have similar body with similar organs, and similar brain. we are different only in skin colors which is affected by the place we live in, and from where our ancestors came from according to how they get in contact to sun, as well according to the kind of food we eat and according to what kind of work we do that give us different shape of body. But our bodies work the same because we have same organs. And the second and big different is HOW we use our brain, and this is the main point of difference between us, because that controls everything in our lives including living healthy or getting sick, and of course most importantly choosing what to believe in, how to believe in things around us taking into consideration the importance of concrete evidences that we ignore when we just follow others because we like them or we love them, or because we hate the others. So, try to get clear vision about what surrounding you instead of giving your brain to others to fill it with anything they want, be the master of yourself and be the one who controls your life and your brain.