What do you say to my friends and coworkers that are Muslim and condemn these acts? How are they different from you?
Two things....
Firstly, not all Muslims follow Mohammad’s example or obey his teachings in accordance with the rule of abrogation which he instituted ... and that’s a good thing.
Secondly, you maybe should also be aware that when a Muslim condemns terrorism they may be doing so according to Sharia Law which, as a matter of the public declaration of the OIC that represents all Muslim countries at the head of state level and whose declarations are therefore considered to have authority over the Ummah (the body of all Muslim believers), is how terrorism may be lawfully defined by Muslims.
And Sharia Law makes waging jihad out in such a way that Jihadis are NOT considered to be terrorist EVER.
Under Sharia Law a terrorist is basically someone who harms a Muslim without right, just as an oppressor is someone who resist Islam or any civil authority not under Sharia Law that presumes jurisdiction over Muslims.
So your friends may be backslidden and not on the official page, many Muslims are such, but they may not be as well...
... and if they are on the official page, however slightly, then they will know that they are allowed to deceive you by using words you think mean one thing but to them does not mean that. Moreover, such deception may at times be considered mandatory if the cause behind it is mandatory (and advancing Sharia Law is mandatory).
First of all, they are different from me in that they do not
believe that Yeshua HaMaschiach, Jesus Christ the Lord is
the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No human being comes to
the Father any other way but by Him.
He died on the cross, bearing our sins in His own body on
the tree. He is the sinless lamb of God who takes away the
sins of the world.
We do not kill and destroy in order to force anyone to
become a Christian, although the Muslim hordes were
stopped at the Gates of Vienna, after they had cut a wide
swath in their rampage (Jihad), killing thousands upon
thousands of “infidels”.
Mohammed was a pedophile, no matter how good you might
think little “Aisha” had it in life. He “consummated”
their “marriage” when she was nine years old, in between
his murderous rampages waging “Jihad”.
I think Islam is the “pale horse” of Revelation. “Chloros”
was always translated as “Green”, except for the one place
in Revelation - because the translators figured that
“Green Horse” was impossible. Well, the color of Islam
is GREEN.