Please see my comment above, which addresses what you say.<p>Cherry picking something bad from the history of Islam as evidence of the whole religion is just an attempt to rationalize hate. It&#x27;s silly. On that basis, we can condemn everyone and everything.<p>To people reading this and who haven&#x27;t read the Quran, I strongly encourage you buy a copy and dispell a lot of ignorant nonsense you hear. If you haven&#x27;t, be sure to read some other scrpture too (e.g., the Torah, the New Testament) for context - otherwise the brutality of ancient societies can be taken out of context. (Remember we were still executing witches; hanging, drawing and quartering; etc. just a few centuries ago (not to mention things like Abu Ghraib and CIA torture recently.))<p>EDIT: For those looking for a good translation, I did some research into that and recommend Arthur Arberry&#x27;s. It&#x27;s probably the most respected among non-sectarian scholars, and Arberry was the head of the Department of Classics at Cairo University and a professor of Arabic at Cambridge. Many other translations push one sectarian view or another. In the U.S. you might need to order a used copy of Arberry or from Oxford University Press directly, but it&#x27;s widely available.