That's very true, I do have personal experience in this, the ones that don't take the religion so seriously, as with any are the most tolerant, open minded and friendly, it's the douchebags you see wondering around with their beards at certain length and lecturing people in the street about drinking alchohol or telling girls to cover up that are the fucking problem, the difficulty is there are assholes that out there that will try to defend them constantly and people are getting sick of it.
The real issue is that these "moderate" Muslims will never condemn the actions of their more violent coreligionists. And additionally, many of these "moderates" lead a double life. In front of people from other religions, they are moderate. But in reality, many of them are as extreme as their more conservative coreligionists.