Truly isnt, free to join, free to leave. It’s the culture around the religion that becomes toxic.

by that logic, all religions are cults

Why make this specifically about Muslims though? They're all cults. Say if the Abrahamic religions had never existed until today, and someone started preaching about them in 2023, almost everyone would think they were insane cults.

The only difference between the "old guard" religions and the modern ones is that people were a lot easier to fool back in ancient times, so they gained traction.