That doesn't mean I agree with everything in the Qoran, but I've read some of it at least. Didn't strike me as a hateful religion - that's on men.

You should try reading all of it, and with the context that they consider this the literal word handed directly to them from their god. And if that is not clear enough, throw in the haddith and the sunnah. Its full of hate and calls to violence.

That said, I'd work under a mutual truce to team up against liberalism.