The Pope kissing the Koran was the first step of submission to Islam in the eyes of Muslims. Muslims have the goal of occupying the Vatican. The first mosque built in Rome designed its highest point to be taller than the highest point of the Vatican. The Muslim goal is worldwide conquest and extermination of all other religions and believers.
The Koran denies the divinity of Christ. There is absolutely, positively, no way you can spin kissing it as some sort of heroic act. Christian martyrs died because they refused to bow to Islam. Kissing the Koran spits on their sacrifice.
I accept your point of view and understand your patriotic desires (and even salute you).
When Christ resurrects those who've witnessed the persecution of the world and the Evil One, many Muslims will be won over by Jesus' power over sin and death. When all see that death has no grip on those who choose the Way of Christ over heresy, we might revisit Papal actions and a Christian man's gentleness to winning over the souls who don't yet know Christ.
It will not be with a pious sword or the stubbornness of hearts that unbelievers are won over to Christ.