As you well know, it's all in the interpretation. Your interpretation says not to do such things; and the Hutus, for example, interpreted it in a way that told them TO do such things.
Religion, can be twisted by those holding the power over it, to do what they want.
You can disavow that "all that passes as Christianity is not Christian" all you want. The fact that it happens, and self-professing Christians do it, is proof enough that all religions have their crazies who will turn religion into a justification of their actions. Always has; always will. Because, simply, that's one of the great failings of religions, all of them.
So, if I was your father, and always told you to love your neighbor, and pray for those who persecute you, and then the first time someone flipped you the bird, you tied him up and tortured him to death, that's actually an example of you behaving in accordance with my instructions?
