Muslims tend to identify themselves individually and personally, and not as a complete group. Therefore, you will understand, that accounts of being a muslim are often from a specific point of view. To use a simile, muslims are like a nomadic people who have spread to every country on the earth, and in each and every country, muslim life and worship is different. So you cannot, by way of metaphor, compare chalk with cheese. What you can say is that all muslims:~