You may have misunderstood me there.<p>Yes, Islam is a particularly violent religion -- if you have read the Koran, many of its concepts seem very incompatible with the idea of a free secular society.  Then again, the bible has the crusades.<p>I&#x27;m personally an atheist and I honestly don&#x27;t think the problem is the the text itself but the cultural, ideological conflicts of an impoverished region that allows whoever &quot;shouts the loudest&quot; to assume power.  The kids committing these atrocities probably couldn&#x27;t even tell you what you just told me about Mohammad -- my point is that they are brainwashed and utterly uneducated so whomever comes along and says &quot;this is god&#x27;s word&quot; is who they will listen to.<p>Anger + Desperation - Education = Extremism<p>You won&#x27;t solve this problem by banning the Koran, but if you can get Muslims everywhere to renounce this &quot;us-or-them&quot; culture in favor of a more moderate interpretation (you know, how all religions seem to evolve if they want to survive) then perhaps we can neuter these kinds of groups <i>before</i> there&#x27;s a power-vacuum?