There's something very off or misconstrued about either this report or Entertainment Weekly's report. But the covenant were already seeking to destroy human existance long before Halo the ring planet was destroyed.
"But the covenant were already seeking to destroy human existance long before Halo the ring planet was destroyed."
Exactly! And the threat presented by The Flood in Halo 1 was clear, imminent, and direct.
Perhaps it IS allegorical to Islam. After all, Bin Laden was screaming about our humiliation of Hussein as one justification for the attack on the WTC. It was only AFTER that attack that we REALLY humiliated him. :)
Yep...
We were killing Covenant long before we even saw Halo.
In fact we only found it when a blind jump was made IIRC.