The SBC repeatedly pointed to Ephesians and Titus to justify slavery; today, many would argue that the SBC misinterpreted those verses and took them out of context. At the time, half of the nation had decided to take those verses as justifying slavery.
Today, Muslim terrorist groups point to certain verses in the Qu'ran to justify violence. There are Muslims who oppose the terrorists' interpretations of those verses.
Both the Bible and the Qu'ran can be used to justify peace; both can also be used to justify war. The question is whether the interpretations used in these justifications are correct.
It was not devout Christians who began to reinterpret the offensive verses in the Bible (both Old and New Testament); for a thousand years Christian scholars had interpreted the verses in ways that justified Crusades, slavery, Inquisitions, Jewish pogroms, the brutal wars of the reformation and counter-reformation, the brutal wars in England in the 1600s, etc. It was mainly deist and non-orthodox Christians who began to use the Bible to refute barbaric Christian practices, and it worked mainly because their was already a great schism within Christendom, opening up many to great doubt as to what was the truth of the Bible.
Islam is experiencing a lot of internal discord right now; that said, Islam is not on the verge of extinction (it is still growing). However, their is currently an opportunity available to use the Qu'ran against the fundamentalists and extremists. Instead, many in America are simply solidifying Islam against America by making Islam, all Islam, an enemy.
Why not read the Qu'ran, see what it actually says? Why not befriend and associate with Muslims in your community and openly discuss the Qu'ran with them? You would be surprised at how many do not see it as justifying violence; you would also be surprised that those who are being pulled in different directions will be open to discourse.Ostracizing a group that one thinks might be enemies is almost a sure way to make them enemies.