I strongly agree with you Mr.Britexpat. Shirk will not be forgiven by Almighty. What i tried to say that the person who doesn't follow the teachings of islam and his actions are accounted on islam which is not correct. Take the terrorist activities. Islam never allow any one to kill innocents, but you can see that most of the terrorist activities are counted on islam. Those so called muslim who doesn't follow islam in proper way as it taught and cause trouble for the entire muslim community. Can you call those terrorists are muslim? For me they are not muslim. They are terrorist and nothing to do with Islam.
Almighty is Merciful and we don't know about our status in front of him on the day of judgement. He is the one to decide and without his blessings and mercy no one can enter to the Paradise.