[ladyinred]

In other words, Muslims seeking to find a peaceful message in the Koran must fight not only the plain meaning of the Koran's text and the current fashion for militancy, but also the arrow of Muslim history.

You cannot defend the indefensible. From reading the Koran myself, I found no peaceful passages. Probably because there aren't any.

[WFBFan]

From reading the Koran myself, I found no peaceful passages. Probably because there aren't any.

Yes. It has always been a violent "faith". One has only to look at the example set by their "most perfect of men", Mohammad: mass-murder, rape, child-rape, theft.... and on and on. All from Muslims sources.