The bottom line is you will respect their Islamic religion by staying the fuck off their lands.
These people don't fuck around. It's not playtime for them, religion and culture is everything. You as a western white guy if captured will be put on your knees, and your head will be sawed off with a knife slowly as you gargle and choke on your own blood.
I've watched hundreds of uncensored videos of Muslims in these regions doing what they do, beheading, amputations, executions.
Just because you feel safe one day doesn't mean shit, you are entering into a region with wolves and they will stalk their prey, if they can kidnap an American citizen that is the ultimate prize. When a mercenary was asked about Iraq and what would happen to him if he walked the streets, he said with in an hour you'd have a video of him getting his head sawed off.
The least you owe yourself is heading over to a gore website that has thousands of uncensored videos so you can watch what it's like when a westerner is put on his knees and a knife is slowly put to work.