I once remember some philosopher, who said that any Westerner who attempts to read the Koran, is a pure act of penance. He was right! I tried reading through the Koran, shortly after 9/11, but after pages and pages of either a babbling diatribe of Mohammed on hell-fire and damnation upon the infidel, or week willed Muslim, or an obvious plagiarism lifted from the Old and New Testaments, I gave up.