"The Quran, unlike the Bible, is accepted as the direct word of God."
Yeah, you're not muslim.
The Koran is not accepted as the direct word of God because it was written by 4 guys as told by Mohammed since he couldn't write himself.
The Torah, being the book of God's Chosen, would be the closest to His word if He did exist, because that is how He presented himself to the people He chose.
Mohammed almost converted to Chrisitainity, but saw it had corrupted the word of the Lord beyond recognition. He considered Judaism, but hard to get people to follow a God who allowed His people to get scattered throughout the lands by their enemies rather than protect them.
So he rewrote it. Hence the similarity to the Bible. Same rules. Difference is, the Bible is a bunch of stories spanning centuries, the koran is one long lecture of rules by Mohammed.
The Ottoman Empire was the the only Islamic nation? They're proof of how open Moslems were to religious minorities? Tell that to the Armenians. Why did the majority of former Eastern Rome convert?
Talk about historic Islamic tolerance to Hindus and Buddhists in India. Tell that to Iranians, the first victims of Islam. 40,000 barbarian Arabs on horseback conquered the only nation Rome never could. Its main religion, Zoroastrianism (without which there would be no Abrahamic Religions and which offered the template for Jesus in Mithra, whose cult was popular in Rome 2000 years ago), currently has no more than 150,000 adherents, most of those are Parsis that had escaped to India from persecution by your gentle Muslims.
Ever notice how throughout Africa and Asia Muslims are in ports of call or trade routes? Arab traders would kidnap people for slavery in those places. But they can't do that to Muslims, so people converted to protect themselves. Nice.
There's a reason why Islam central, Saudi Arabia, has no other religions.
As for the tired, "But Christianity and Judaism used to...," correct, Christians and Jews USED TO. They don't anymore. They evolved. It is currently 2018 on Planet Earth, no excuses. We gave you television, radio, schools, cars, airplanes, cell phones, Facebook and Rock. Every other religion, culture, ethnicity, country, etc, on Earth brought into the modern civilized world with these delightful toys acts like a modern civilized person, no exceptions - except one. No excuses, time to grow the hell up and stop killing everyone else because Muslims are still proto-medievel barbarians.