I don't hate Islam either - no more than any other religion - but I do worry that the spectrum of beliefs and behaviour within Islam (which one might put down to culture, but mostly will be religious) has such extremes, and seemingly hasn't purged past influences so as to enable the following, and the same seems to apply to FGM (mostly found in Islamic cultures):
Girl, 10, forced to marry 22-year-old man in Iran | Metro News
When some complain about the practitioners of Islam still living in mediaeval times, this (the extremes) I would think is what they might be thinking about - apart from the stoning, hand-chopping off, etc. - even if they are illegal or frowned upon. And the burqa/niqab (being black mostly it seems) just seems to be iconic of nihilism - so perhaps not the best choice of colour, and especially where the males wear white. How would one deny equality of the sexes so obviously than by dress? Wow - we didn't think of that!
And equality of the sexes doesn't appear to be an Islamic ideal - males and females having their appropriate place perhaps, but equal, not so much. Which is why Islam apparently will always be at odds with modern Western societies - unless it changes.