I read it when I was in the Army to see if I could get into their heads.

I'm not a blank statist, I think people are different in a lot more ways than skin color and how we understand the world is perhaps the most distinctive feature. The Koran is not a book that clicks with a Western worldview.

I wish it were just a question of religious differences, but if that's how you see it than there's never going to be a peaceful resolution. Islam is a commandment to conquer the unbeliever and either convert them to the faith or to rid the world of the infidel. It runs through the entire thing, like a military SOP. The Koran is a field manual for the spread of a theocratic empire.