Rest of article at :

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/pollitt

This Koran, which I thought was dictated to the Prophet by an angel, is totally ridiculous and poorly written to boot!

This is the same indictment against all god-driven religions. The Mormon story is every bit as fantastical as the biblical and the and ancient mythologies of Greece.

horror at militant Islam and fear of Muslim immigration lie behind at least some of the current vogue for atheism

Uh, no. One has nothing to do with other. And atheism has been around at least since the dawn of the enlightenment (when superstition began giving way to reason and emprical evidence).

gee, if yer gonna take the time to read it and comment, you should at least pop it