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....wow.
Funnily enough, the Qur'an borrows most of its background religious materials from the Bible (both New and Old Testaments) and the Torah. In fact, the Angel Gabriel is supposedly the messenger who brought Mohammad all the makings to be compiled into the Qur'an (this, of course, completely ignoring the teaching that Jesus was a prophet of Allah and was very wise and powerful from being backed by him).
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So? How does this relate to anything being discussed?
(We are discussing the particulars of the literary DEMANDS of modern faiths, not their histories.)
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There's nothing dooming about the Qur'an. No more than there is about the Bible. The problem of religion is its spawning of fanatics. They are what's really dooming in all this. But they can be found in anything just about, including politics.
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You completely misunderstand my point.
What I was saying is that, take the actions of men throughout history (a great example: the crusades) and preserve the texts they interpretted as a justification, as a way of identifying the contexts in which evil is committed.
What YOU are trying to illustrate is the Bible and Quran are somehow similar in their texts. They are not. The Quran (specifically its demands upon modern Muslims) is barbaric at best. The Bible (specifically its demands upon modern Christians) is not.