I used to take my info on the Koran from the internet, like you, before I decided to study it in the Arabic for twenty years.
Since then, I have no need to consult half-truth internet propaganda.
So you studied the Qur'an on the Internet 20 years ago?? Make that 1996. We had the Internet. A search of one of the 4 main search engines could yield as many as 3 or 4 hits. There was one search engine (I forget the name) that was all scholarly sources.
So either you are mistaken, lying or exaggerating for the sake of effect - you know, hyperbole. Because people just didn't study things very much on the Internet 20 years ago. A few things, but not the absurd number of things we find today.
So which is it, Bowman, lying, mistaken or hyperbole?
It seems to me like you probably started studying Arabic and the Qur'an long before it was available on the Internet. Please feel free to correct me. I've just seen you promote the Qu'ran as being "biblical" too many times.
The Qur'an is a book of hearsay, that Muhammad wove into his delightful little lies, and instructions to both follow him, being peaceful in the beginning, escalating to inciting violence in the last half of the Qur'an. Sorry, the Bible is quite different, it starts off with a bedraggled group of God's people entering the promised land and becoming violent against the Caananites, accelerating in the time of David, and Solmon as God blessed his chosen people. And then more violence , but against his people, which God allowed because his people were worshipping other gods, with prophets warning. Followed by Jesus in the New Testament, allowing himself to die for our sins, and then the birth and spread of the church, finished off by John's vision in Revelation.
So the Qur'an totally misses all the history, from the time of creation, Noah, Abraham, God's people, King David, King Solomon, the divided Kingdom, moving down to the capture and total dispersal of Israel in 722 BC and then Judah in 536 BC. Then the return of Judah to Jerusalem, (being conquered by the Greeks, then Romans - history, but not in the Bible) and on to Jesus and the church.
Just what part of the Qur'an has all that history in it? You know, the history of the Jews. The bulk of the Old Testament.
Where in the Qur'an is Jesus portrayed as God and the Saviour of the world? Because I talked to an Imam from Egypt, who not only knew the Qur'an in Arabic, but had also memorized the whole thing, and when questioned, he denied that God would ever come to earth as a man, because God was only transcendent. He said, it was not in God to be born as a man, according to the Qur'an.
Enough with your nonsense worship of the Qur'an. Spend some time on Jesus, and you will not go far wrong.