The problem is you're grouping all muslims together. There are over a billion muslims in the world, so if they all really wanted control all it would take is for each one to kill 5 non-muslims. Of course thats over simplified, but then again that seems to be how your mind operates.

And how can you say that American freedoms, independence, free will, and happiness have never been harmed? Do you remember slavery? Or the times when women had little to no rights and were viewed as little more than servants? Or prohibition? Or the slaughter of countless Indians? Or the Salem witch trials? Or the Civil War?...I could go on and on all day. And thats just what happened in this country. Lets not even go into European history under Christian rule. What if people back then had said there was no place in the world for Christianity?