“I know many muslims, all peaceful loving people. Can they not have a religion simply because you say?”
They can have it, but not in Europe. There is no place in Europe for a religion which promotes the complete subjugation of women, the demonisation of homosexuality, the vilification of women who choose to dress “immodestly”, the indoctrination of children into its ways and the requirement for special courts to resolve matters which should be dealt with by the nation’s judicial system. All “peace loving” Muslims – including the “friendly and moderate” ones you mention, subscribe to these principles and, to a greater or lesser degree, denounce those, amongst whom they live, who do not support them. All of those principles are at total odds with those promoted in most European nations.
If any other large identifiable group subscribed to these principles they would be swiftly and mercilessly shot down. Instead Islam is cosseted and feted as if it is the second coming. Well the current wave is. It took the European nations 800 years to drive Islam out of Europe. Curiously even then – towards the end of the 15th Century – they became known as the “unassimilable community.” This time round it will not be quite so easy.