I have traveled the world and not just "shaking hands with a Muslim" but lived in Muslim countries. I have studied Q'ran in order to understand it and have friends there.

When you travel to another country at first you get in love with the new culture but after some months you also start understanding the "not so good things".

If you believe you know about Muslims because you shake hands with one you are totally wrong. This Muslim is totally surrounded by a foreign culture and he has to adapt. It is a completely different thing when you(as Christian or worse atheist) are the one who has to adapt to theirs(atheism is punished in most Muslim countries, Christianism means you are at best second class citizen).

Most of you Americans live in a bubble(all of you, not just the MidWest) because you are at least 5000 miles away from EuroAsia (and Africa and SouthAmerica) where 5 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth live. You speak just one language and have a tremendously homogeneous culture and population. In other countries just for survival you need to speak several languages and understand-respect several cultures, not just shaking hands with isolated members of them.

This makes extremely easy for media to manipulate you. If you hear Putin talk, you are never going to understand what he says and make your own opinion, you can't talk with actual people living in Ukraine, or India or China, or just go there(in China for example most people do not speak English), you have to trust others that have, and these people have their best own interest in mind, not yours.

For example, we know from wikileaks mail leaks that France invades Lybia for two main reasons: First to steal their gas and oil, second because Gaddafy is saving an enormous amount of gold and silver and wants to create an African currency backed by precious metals.

Was the American public aware of those interests? Of course not, they believe it is about freedom and democracy, as if people enjoyed having their country devastated by war by foreign powers, their family members die or be raped, to loose all their possessions.

Is the American public aware of the deal(of an American oil company with contractors and other countries) to make a pipeline over Syria to transport the natural gas of Qatar to Europe? Agreement done without the support of Assad of course, which meant the civil war for his country.

Of course not, people buy whatever they watch on tv, war is a racket and it has always been.

I am not American and do not like Trump, but I'm glad Hillary is out as she was the main responsible of direct Russia confrontation, as she wanted to repeat the Cold war as having most of the population scared and frightened of a new nuclear world war is the best way for people not to oppose the militarization of the USA and it is a great excuse to control the media when the final debt bubble makes the financial system implode(Remember it was Bill Clinton who remove the Steagal Act and created all the derivatives mess).

If you want to get out of the bubble you need to get out of America for a while. It is certainly going to make you go out of your comfort zone, but then it will become easy as you will discover a world and opportunities you didn't know existed.