Touche and deserved. Sorry if I was sneering. I am not from a muslim country and don't know what the average person there thinks about jihad. Maybe you're right. I haven't read the Koran. I have read Seven Pillars of Wisdon and I don't recall all this fear and loathing about the Koran back then. It was probably the Anarchists who were the great threat. You say they weren't good muslims back then. Why should I take your word for it? Possibly muslims can be good muslims without taking the Koran as literally as you. I've read accounts of some American military pilots who enjoy the company of Muslims. I also know a man who worked in Saudi Arabia who liked the people there. What do we do with a billion Muslims? Insult their religion?
the fact that there were very pleasant Nazis, that there is much to be admired in what Nazism did for Germany, does not in any way obviate the fact that Nazism is one of the more odious creeds ever to besmirch the land.
same goes for Islam.
I do not care if facts insult a billion people: they remain facts.
and, no: do NOT take my word for it.
do as I have done: READ the source material.