These are the official University of Michigan, and University of Virginia websites:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html

http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html

"ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free"

This is Muslim scripture:

"5.51": O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

"9.29": Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

"9.30": And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!

Why have we not seen these in the mainstream press, and even cartoons are banned? Not even Veritas, from Harvard?

What we need is a religious roundtable, to explore the dark side as well as the light of religious belief, so that we may come to a better understanding of what it means to live a religious life in an open society.

@ Anonymous

If i were to go to a street corner in America, and tell you not to trust "those white people" or "those black people", i would be considered a bigot and largely ignored. Someone, however, might consider me a racist, and I would be arrested for hate speech because "the insult is in the ear of the hearer". However, if i should tell people to not make friends of Christians and Jews, they're all wrong, may God destroy them, that's not bigotry? Of course not, it is gospel to Muslims !

The point I am really trying to make is that before 9-11, nobody was worried about what Muslims might think. Remember, the threat back then had been homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma, Randy Weaver in Idaho, and David Koresh in Texas. Is the news media keeping the ignorant, ignorant; so that they do not get riled up and attack Muslims?

Remember, too , that the USA used to be a place of lynchings and riots. The Japanese in WWII were interned, and though it was a great injustice, they might have suffered hate crimes at the hands of racist Americans if they hadn't been in concentration camps.

There is nothing in the Christian bible which tells me whom to make friends with, or that i should tax those who are not of my faith and to make them submit, and that everybody else is wrong, "may God destroy them".

Yes, there are religious groups which feel themelves to be quite exclusive; Calvinists, and the power-elite WASP's for instance. But in the scripture, there is nonesuch. Read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and you shall not find the hatred of a believer there. I pray that others may have a change of heart and not: "may Allah destroy them".