I would give you a million other books I would rather read then the Quran. I don't need to read through hundreds of pages of "praise Allah" to somehow open my view to the world. Many of the verses are translated through interpretation.
Some people might think "Wash your yourself in the blood of the infidels" as a hearwarming welcoming to the peaceful religion of Islam. Dont think Im attacking the religion (all muslims arent terrorists I KNOW), I just believe these suicide bombers are wrong for killing themselves for what a book says. 19 highjackers on 9/11 sure believed they were about to meet a lot of brown eyed virgins in the afterlife........
You cant even compare the extremists who live their life off the Bible compared to the Quran....
White power movement.......how many of them exist today; half a million. Lets try to count the number of people that live their lives based on the teachings of the Quran. I would say there are easily 50 million muslims that believe suicide bombers are right in their beliefs AND wouldnt mind strapping some C4 to their chests.
OK, if too narrow to actually read and understand the context of the Quaran, read the old testament. (Tell me how many "Praise the Lord's" you see in there.) Tell me what kind of image that portrays. Where do you think the original "eye for an eye" came from? It wasn't Islam. If you read the rules of Jihad, the highjackers broke many of them and even in their own religion wouldn't be bound for eternity.
And yes I can compare extremists with extremists. Many, many groups have hijacked Christianity, the sameway that people hijack Islam for their own personal gains. And lets count the number of "Christians" who live their lives according to the bible. 99% of Christians have no idea what their rules of life are supposed to be, they have no idea what the 10 commandments are, they have no idea what the 7 deadly sins are, they have no idea that they have responsibilities under God, they have no idea what a church is supposed to be. And I could keep going, but there isn't much point.
If you aren't going to be cultured enough to understand what you are criticizing, at least know something about what you are defending.