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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.