Being an ex muslim I can tell you that what Steve describes in that article very much applies to Islam as much as it does to christianity. Here i'll address some of your points.
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I personally didn't read the entire Qur'an that many time. But there's a high possibility I read it "entirely" dozens of time in the past few years. Now The Qur'an is consisted up of 30 Chapters. The average Muslim reads a chapter a day. So basically, we read it twelve times a year. Of course that excluding the number of times we read it in the month of Qur'an "Ramadan" I'm sure you've heard of it. I know people who read from 30 to 33 times only in this particular month.
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First, the average muslim doesn't read one chapter a day. Only very religious people who also say their prayers 5 times a day, read it every day.
Secondly, the quran is in arabic, hence even those who do read 1 surah (chapter) a day often don't understand it, since they can't speak arabic (at least many of them, including me). There are very few people who read the quran's translation every day.
Thirdly, Steve challenges you to read the whole book from cover to end in 1 sitting. Not over a few days. Start 1 morning from the first chapter and read through the end, or at least, as much as you can manage. And in a language that you can understand. And then decide how brilliant/boring it is.
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Steve, as smart as you are, do you think that a book which some people claim to be written by humans' hands doesn't change for 1430 Years? Not a even single word not even a single letter not even a single vowel. Allah Says He Protects it. Tell me, is it like the Bible? No, the Bible has many different versions. Yet The Qur'an has always been the very same.
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I just took my quran and wrote a lot of random stuff on it. Did a lightning bolt come from the sky and hit me? No. Its baseless to say that because the book hasn't changed it has come from the skies. Many of the shakespear novels have also not changed in hundreds of years, what does that prove? If there is a single authority who is allowed to publish the quran, then obviously no one else can legally copy and publish it, and hence they can't change it.
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I ask you to dwell so deep into this great book whilst trying your best to figure out why do the thousands of people who convert on a daily basis "know" it's the right path and true religion ...
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I will tell you: because they were either born in that religion, and because of peer pressure. In a religion where people who stop believing in it, they are to be be-headed, how many people do you think will admit they no longer believe in it or think about converting?
Secondly, asking any sort of questions about Islam and the inconsistensies in it is also considered a sin, and your parents, siblings, etc will sharply tell you not to do it and just to take everything on faith. This causes a great many people to stop using their brains, like apparently you have.
Here are some links for you:
Contradictions in Quran
If you want to read the quran from front to end, i highly recommend doing so from this url:
SAQ 1: The Opening