Is that necessarily true though, in the United States? In the Middle East and other predominately Muslim areas, I don't have a case against what you're saying. But here, I'm not so sure. Is it that these are the values of the religion being carried out, and that there is a statistically significant breakdown in mass shootings by ethnicity/religion in the United States? I'm having trouble finding that breakdown. Or is it a confirmation bias that has us as a society focusing on mass shootings committed by Muslims?
If there's nothing we can do about it other than wait it out then maybe that person is right to be that cynical. Edit: I'm more along these lines of thought, and you have yours, and that's totally fine. I respect your opinion. Hopefully in the future we'll be able to find some common ground here, because, in my mind the US and everywhere else conversations are two very very different things (I think we agree on that).