'Formerly Calgary' puts a focus on a key element - the separation of Church and State. Muslim Kamran Siddiqui wrote in an Star oped, "In a secular society, religion is a personal matter and the practicing of religious rituals is restricted to the private lives. In the public sphere, every person is equal in the eyes of the state, irrespective of race, religion and gender....There is no doubt the vast majority of Muslims live peacefully in Western countries and fulfil their responsibilities as members of Western society but they need to become more vocal to negate the inappropriate actions of a small fraction that tends to alienate the community. "
So for many Muslims Saunders is correct. But he is wrong in that a significant  thread holds a theocratic version. And a smaller thread holds to changing the world to a theocratic empire.  That thread rejects democracy, and the smaller thread is the source of terror.