I think you have been mislead, Pied Piper, by people with an axe to grind. The "fuss" you have referred to was a product of an ongoing and long term pattern of the use of humiliation, dehumanization, torture, and other forms of abuse that people who happen to be Muslims have been experiencing at the hands of those who claim to hold the moral high ground (the governments of the United States and Britain). The abuse of the Koran is only a very small part of a much larger picture.

These practices are wrong no matter who is using them. But we can't claim the moral high ground and feel superior to anyone if we are using them ourselves. And we are using them, and have been for a very long time.