Bishop McElroy gets it wrong, like all apologists of Islam.  Islam has not been "distorted" by a few crazy terrorists.  The "terrorists" are following the words and deeds of their prophet as written in the Koran, Hadith, and Sira.  Moderate muslims simply choose to ignore their Islamic doctrine.  The bishop is either not educated on Islamic doctrine and its spread throughout the world in the last 1400 years, or he believes that befriending Islam will convince its followers not to adhere to their very political religion.