I think that Islam was intended to represent brotherhood, charity and kindness etc.......but the laws are so contradictory that there was no way for it to result in anything other than what it represents today.....which I'm sorry to say, is chaos.
I have close friends that are Muslim. I respect and embrace them wholeheartedly. They are nothing but good people. But after having intense and lengthy conversations with multiple relgious muslims including some imams, I am lead to believe that's quite close to bogus. Again, the intention was good, but if was clearly a manmade religion, which is why it is flawed, hence the uproar and backlash there is against it today.