The Online Jihad site translates these illuminating poll results from a Turkish jihadist site:
The question: “What acquainted you with Jihad?”
The 9/11 Attack (blessed Osama and Azzam) – 9.07% (46 votes)
Resistance in Chechnya – 22.49% (114 votes)
Resistance in Palestine – 4.73% (24 votes)
READING OF THE QUR’AN AND AUTHENTIC HADITH – 24.65% (125)
Kafir torture of Muslims in their lands – 9.66% (49)
My environment – 9.66% (49)
School religion and morality textbooks – 0.79% (4) [GOOD!]
Learned people, sheikhs – 2.76% (14)
TV and Internet Jihad Videos – 9.27% (47)
I can’t remember – 2.37% (12)
I’m not yet acquainted with it – 4.54% (23)
My choice isn’t listed – 7.69% (39)
Yet American Muslim advocacy groups continue to exhort Americans to read the Qur’an in order to discover that it is peaceful. Evidently they do this knowing that most Americans will not read it, but that the challenge alone will convince some of them that the Qur’an indeed teaches peace.