I think that among believers of Islam worldwide, interpretation of the Koran is a spectrum that runs from the benign to the dangerous and cruel.
My own personal doctor is a Muslim from the Mideast, and I have never met a kinder man. Not all Muslims are like this. For instance, the Taliban are not considered to be practitioners of mainstream Islam, but of a more fundementalist and extreme interpretation of Islam. Still, the Talilban are Moslems.
Christianity has its own share of extreme fundementalists as a subset under the umbrella of Christianity.
However, I see a difference between these two great religions. I have the impression that the number of Moslem extremists who whip, murder, maim (chop off hands and feet), suppress women by denying them education etc, believe that disbelievers should be killed, and so on, is far, far larger than the number of Christian extremists who engage in this activity.
Am I wrong about this?