[freefly]

"Christians are compelled to obey the New Testament. The old testament, in itself, is not the christian religion."

I would agree.
(However, a lot of Christians would not...)
But, as I said, for a LONG part of the last 2000 years, the Old Testament was given at least as much weight
as the New (depending on what the "teacher/leader" wanted to justify) by Christians.
And, as I understand it, it is closely related to the Jewish Talmud/Torah...and the Jews do not acknowledge the
New Testament as being from a prophet of G*d (Jesus Christ) at all (apologies in advance if I am mistaken).
They base their religion off of the teachings of the Old Testament prophet Moses (more apologies).

Point being, religious writings of most of the major religions can look (or be made to look) quite ugly.
A lot of evil has been done in G*d's name.
I doubt that He approves of any of it.

[Leisler]

I have read the Koran, but only once and a long time ago. My impression that I have held was that it was a fine book and no more hateful than the old testament. The old testament has been refered to as the Hebrew bible. It seems to me that people will do what they want and use a text as justification. Books are just dead wood.