To be perfectly honest, I'm concerned that you're going to make this extremely important decision on gut instinct, lashing out angrily against your local Christian community by converting without thinking. I'm not afraid of you "not being saved", or something -- my personal theology is very liberal in that regard -- but I am concerned that you're too caught up in the heat of the moment to step back and analyze the various faiths as objectively as you can.
Newby,
Even after I read your response, I must say that I share EJCC's concerns. Please bear with me as I have to work my way up to saying what I actually want to get across.
Remember this, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1
...the message of Jesus was to set people free, not put them in bondage to rituals and rules. Over and over he tried to get the religious leaders of his day to understand that it wasn't in keeping the "community's standards" that made them right with God. It was simply trusting that God was who he said he was and that he meant what he said.
The message of Jesus was freedom from the law of sin and death [Jewish religion was based in LAW. Isalm is also based in LAWS i.e. RULES]. Religions, all of them, are based on keeping rules in order to obtain righteousness with God. I ate lunch between a Muslim and a Jew at a writer's conference in Wisconsin. I sat between these two ladies, both devoted to their religions. I asked them questions about how they believed and both of them told me that their religions were "works" oriented. Both ladies told me that they believed they had to keep the rules to inherit eternal life. They both believed they have to conform to the standards of their religious community. Sadly, I have a Mormon cousin who believes he has to do so many "good works" to get into Heaven and I know several other denominations who teach such things. That's bondage. Are you sure you want to be a slave? Sadly, many people who claim to follow Christ are also slaves to religious systems, because they don't realize what his coming to earth actually signified. Often, people of all kinds, just go through the motions. They know the right things to say and the right things to do. That's among ALL people, regardless of religion.
I don't mean to be bossy or sound "preachy" but I ask you to consider not basing your decision to become "anything" based upon the way people of a certain group make you feel. If you base it upon how people act you are going to find yourself feeling the same way down the road, even in Islam when you discover that among some the rules are more important than the person and that not everybody's going to really go beyond niceties. [mostly because many people "can't" go beyond that until they discover who they really are.]
People are just people whether they are Christian, Muslim or anything else. You can't base your spirituality and the course of you life on the dogmas of other people [I mean you can, but I wouldn't recommend it.]
My advice to you would be to seek a personal fellowship with God first and in so doing, also discover who you are and then, and only then, be concerned about belonging to a community. The overwhelming desire to be a part of a community can lead a person into falling prey to cults and all sorts of stuff. To me faith isn't a religious system. It's believing that God is...if your faith is in Jesus, then take your focus off those other people and put it on him. Read his words, discover who he really was/is, before you decide to abandoned him based upon the acts or lack thereof of people who may only have a religious appearance. He spoke of people who served him with their lips but their hearts [spirits] were far from him. Maybe you have encountered such people.