As Robert Spencer noted briefly here, according to the four hostages just freed in a daring raid in Nuseirat, they were required by their captors to read the Qur’an. 

Could a more sinister form of mental torture be devised? But it was not meant as a torture. 

These devout Muslims who held them captive believe the Qur’an to be the most beautiful and splendid of all works, the inspired word of Allah.