dieseldick - I am sure you understand that interperetation is everything in religion.
Take for example Communion in the Catholic church. No-one believes they are actually eating Christ's flesh or drinking his blood - it's about symbolism.
If I could be bothered, and I can't to be honest - I could find loads of bloodthirsty quotes in the Bible exhorting followers to murder non-believers, but people don't, because it was written in more violent and reactionary times, and its message in that sense has no place for civilised modern society.
I see no difference with the Quran.
Of course, you can find psychopaths in any faith who will use their holy book on which to hang their perverted beliefs, but to try and include an entire religion in the beliefs and actions of a deluded few is surely not rational.
If that argument flies, then Westboro Baptist Church is the leading light on behaviour at military funerals - because they derive their ethos from the Bible, or more accurately, the spin they choose to place on what they read.