The Way of the Muslim

The Philadelphia Inquirer had published one of the drawings that has sparked the recent Muslim violent spree and what I found to be insane was the following quote from a U.S. based Muslim:

"It's disrespectful to us as a people," Asim Abdur-Rashid, an imam with the Majlis Ash'Shura, an umbrella group for mosques in the region, told the Inquirer in a story that appeared on the newspaper's Web site. "It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence."

Now kick me in the genitals if I am wrong, but doesn't the last sentence in his statement seem a little contradictory? He is saying that the prophet Muhammad was not violent. But for some strange reason the Muslim's revere him so much that they honor him with these ongoing acts of violence.