Bottom line: treat Islam like you would Christianity. If you find yourself defending Christian/western atrocities but condemning all Muslims for Islamist atrocities then you are probably an alt right bigot. If you defend Islamist imperialism and terrorism while condemning abortion clinic terrorists or Western colonialism then you are probably a regressive left bigot.

Since you seem keen on pointing out logical fallacies. This is a version of a balance fallacy (or what I call the myth of symmetry) that wants to equally condemn Christian atrocities with Islamic atrocities, simply because Islam and Christianity both share in being religions. It just amounts to lazy thinking on both sides: because not all forms of Western colonialism were the same and not all Islamist movements are the same either. Then you go into a recapitulation of an argument I loath: being a liberal or right wing extremist is equally bad, because any two forms of extremism share in being extreme, and therefore must be equally condemned.

You are also quick to characterize my views as stating only people from within a community can criticize the people from within these communities. I do not think this should always be the case. Everyone has a right to air their grievances against someone if it directly affects them, especially in regards to violence and terrorism. Everyone has a right to not live their lives in fear of violence.

But I do have specific problems: like with French "liberals" policing what Muslim women choose to wear through this twisted logic of combating the oppression of Muslim women (since they know better than these women who claim they are making these choice themselves). Or in America how all these state legislatures--which are usually the smallest, most backwards, and least ethnically diverse-- were bending over backwards to ban Sharia law as if they had any idea what it entails. So I think there should be at least a minimum standard on the part of the criticizer in knowing what they are talking about (e.g. how actual Muslim women feel about wearing the veil in the West or even the basics of Sharia law). Because hatred frequently spreads in the absence of their understanding.

I can, at this point, already anticipate a possible response. That communities in the West, like Muslim communities, have a right to self-determination and if they don't want these laws or expressions of religion then so be it. To which I would say, in both the instances I mentioned, versions of these laws were struck down by higher courts because they were ruled to violate their internal legal standards. America struck down these blanket anti-Sharia laws as unconstitutional. And a court in France struck down the bans on burkinis.

All I am saying is that if you want to criticize something then you better be able to say why and provide adequate context and scale. Otherwise, I really am under no obligation to defend "your right" to criticize over a billion people because of a pew poll or something. And I honestly feel the same way about Israel. If you criticize all Israelis or say they do not have a right to exist, then I immediately will dismiss what you have to say (unless you happen to be either Israeli or someone that was displaced by them). If you want to criticize them for something specific like settlement expansion, water rights, or the realities of going through checkpoints as a Palestinian then that is different.