There are many contradictory verses in the Quran that can be quite confusing. This ambiguity allows Muslims to have their personalized “divine guidance” based on their own preferences. Those who like tolerance or want to present Islam as a tolerant religion can quote parts of the Quran that advocates tolerance, while the hardliners, the fundamentalists and even the terrorists can quote those parts of the Quran that foments hate and killing of the disbelievers. Therefore ironically everyone can find what he is looking for in that book.
This has always been my position. What I'd like to see is support of those who don't support those take the hardline..xenophobic version of Islam.
Only problem is the later violent verses of Koran supersede the "nice" verses. Have a lot more scriptural authority in Koran and Hadith. This is what the head of Jihad Watch says. Robert Spencer.