Re: "Religions can be interpreted in moderate ways or Radical ways. It is up to us who/how to be!"
Not so in the case of Islam.
Craig Wynn says:
"Islam rises and falls on Muhammad. He is the doctrine’s sole prophet, its lone founder, its god’s singular conduit. Yet the picture the Islamic scriptures paint is not flattering. I analyzed the five most holy Islamic books and spent two years studying Muhammad and his message. What I found was bone chilling. The depiction of the prophet by the most revered Muslim sources is horrendous. Nearly every page reveals behavior that is immoral, criminal, and violent. The five oldest and most trusted Islamic sources don’t portray Muhammad as a great and godly man. They reveal that he was a thief, liar, assassin, mass murderer, terrorist, warmonger, and an unrestrained sexual pervert engaged in pedophilia, incest, and rape. He authorized deception, assassinations, torture, slavery, and genocide. He was a pirate, not a prophet. According to the Hadith and the Qur’an, Muhammad and his henchmen plundered their way to power and prosperity. And by putting the Qur’an in chronological order and correlating it with the context of Muhammad’s life as it was reported in the Sira, Sunnah and Hadith, we also find that Allah mirrored his prophet’s character. Muhammad’s god condoned immoral and criminal behavior. Allah boasts about being a terrorist. He claims to have deceived men, to have stolen their property, to have enslaved women and children, to having committed acts of murder, genocide, and sadistic tortures."
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/
"He is the doctrine’s sole prophet, its lone founder, its god’s singular conduit."
That right there is a fallucy. Mohammed is not the sole prophet of Islam. Islam has several holy prophets including Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Mohammed is merely the last in line in their religion. Further, Muslims do not pray to Mohammad.
I think what is missing regarding the "interpretation" mentioned previously and your take on Islam, is that religions are practiced differently, depending on the individual.. Obviously, muslims may be more or less devout as christians or practioners of any religion. That's why there are more secular, moderate, or conservative muslims, (as there are Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed Jews, for example) and not all muslims are radical, militant terrorists.