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All of this is irrelevant. Whatever we may make of the Koran, its scholars seem to know exactly what it says. And it seems to be dangerous.
For instance: apparently, the people that know the Koran best say that it is a capital offense to blaspheme Allah OR his prophet. Ask Salman Rushdie if it has been some silly mis-interpretation that has forced him to live a virtually underground life since he wrote his book. Or ask whether a poor understanding by Afghanistan's clerical class almost killed a convert to one of the other great fictional faiths.
No. The guys that have literally spent a lifetime studying their book would probably be the best authorities on what it actually calls for. They seem to be in no doubt whatsoever that any threat posed by alternative beliefs or ridicule must be destroyed, until we're all a bunch of zealots and robots, just like they are.
And what it calls for in too many cases is the death that some mortal man or another that might represent a threat poses to this insane legend and the mythology that surrounds the entire rotten structure that these scholars revere.
Islam is fiction; so is Christianity, so is Buddhism and Hinduism and all the other matters of faith that can only be 'felt', never observed.
But the big difference is...Islam is a fiction that fights to preserve itself.
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
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