Probably best to try some independent research on it, especially the somewhat before modern times history and the non-radicalized parts of current worship and population. I've done nothing terribly in depth in regards to checking stuff out m'self, but there's certainly plenty of good stuff from it -- especially the earlier parts of the qur'an, before Muhammad himself became more aggressive in the face of aggression (and even after that, stuff like the islamic theology regarding just war was pretty damn progressive for its time in a lot of ways), and some of the associated texts -- and most followers (the vast, vast majority) are just... people.
Much of the problems seen related to it are considerably more social or cultural rather than religious... and the islamophobia and general xenophobia regarding the muslim population of the world among western populations means you get a very poisoned discourse, as well. Overt and directed negativity from the western perspective, understandable defensiveness considering it from the muslim, and what appears by all accounts to be a great deal of media effort to suppress or ignore anything contrary to that dialectic. Nasty shit with a lot of geopolitics and old anger mixed in.
It gets an incredibly bad rap in the western world, but the fact of the matter is that the muslim population is roughly equal to the christian one and yet we somehow have most of said ~1/3rd the human species getting along fairly peaceably.
Still, it's a very inflammable topic, especially on a majority western forum. Someone could try for a thread, but it would probably be best to just... try not to talk about it much, honestly.