Carol

You didn't ask about violent passages from the Old and New Testaments, you asked about the Koran. If you want Jewish or Christian violent dogma, there's plenty of that as well. There is just as much hate in a Crusade as there is in a Jihad, and just as much holy justification.
But Christianity, especially in its stronghold of Europe and the Americas, has been diluted by humanism for a much longer time. Numbers of practicing Christians in Europe, in fact,are at an all-time low. Fewer and fewer are approaching the Bible literally. This is a very positive trend. One can only hope that this trend toward Reason, coupled with an instinct for survival, can beat back the neo-con born-again movement in the US, and reverse the strengthening Muslim Fundamentalist movement in the Mideast and Southwest Pacific.