The Koran was not even translated into English until fairly recently. Muslims said it was because Arabic is the "holy language" as that's the language in which the Koran was given to Mohammed. That made it sacreligious or something to translate it into one of "man's languages", rather than Allah's . I'm suuuure that was the only reason why they didn't want nonarabic nonmoslems to be able to read that thing.(/sarcasm)
(Yes, I've read it...Dawood (twice) and Abdullah Yusef Ali (once).)
You've read the Qu'ran three times? I love FreeRepublic, because how else could I meet such a wide variety of people? I hope it didn't 'sink in' too much...