Islam is how Muslims practice it in a particular time and place.

Every religion has inner contradictions. Budhism, the religion of peace, runs martial arts schools. while some monks withdraw from everyday life and others die in political protests.

It makes some debates about religions extemely difficult. When Muslims counter extremists by saying that Islam is the religion of peace, the truth is that Islam is the relligion of peace only when ists adherents understand it as such and practice it as such.
When Christians say that Christianity is the religion of love, the truth is that it’s a religion of love only when its adherents understand and practise it as such.