Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
It is a lie to state that the Koran is 'the same as the Bible'. Such absurdity conflates two opposite systems of thought; the changing, dynamic and free-will based theology of Golden Rule Christianity with the slavery, violence, ritualization and ignorance of Muhammad's cult. The underpinning concepts of Christianity and Islam are polar opposites. It would be equally as ridiculous to state that modern day 'Islamist' states such as Turkey, Iran or Greater Arabia 'possess the same basic systems with the same world-view' as say happy, smug, modern-day France.
Sura 29 or 'The Spider' reviewed here, is more fun from the cult of Muhammad. Almost half of the chapter is hate speech and violence against Infidels – surely a 'moderate' amount. This is also the chapter which clearly states that once you join the cult of Muhammad, you can't leave:
Those who believe [in the Oneness of Allah (Monotheism) and in Messenger Muhammad SAW, and do not apostate because of the harm they receive from the polytheists], and do righteous good deeds, surely, We shall remit from them their evil deeds and shall reward them according to the best of that which they used to do.
The Al-Lah moon deity is quite clear that you must follow, like a slave, the entire opus of the cult's diktats found in Koranic 'law', or more appropriately, Koranic totalitarianism. 29:8 states that if your parents are not Moslem, you don't need to obey them. 29:21 clearly disavows free-will by maintaining that Allah: “..punishes whom He will, and shows mercy to whom He will, and to Him you will be returned.” Nice. So the Al-Lah thing, unknowable, unreachable and premised on Hub'Al, the main idol of the Kabaa shrine, and one that Muhammad's family took care of, is going to determine everything in your life. Your only hope is to be a good slave for the Al-Lah thing.
O My slaves who believe! Certainly, spacious is My earth. Therefore worship Me (Alone)."
Everyone shall taste the death. Then unto Us you shall be returned.
Allah enlarges the provision for whom He wills of His slaves, and straitens it for whom (He wills). Verily, Allah is the AllKnower of everything.
Slaves of Allah. Eventually 'you' will rejoin him or it, in some format. Perhaps you will be 'saved' for a pleasurable after-life of bliss. Or, if you did not follow Muhammad you will be eternally tortured, damned by the prankster Allah, since he or it, did not allow you to become a pious member of Muhammad's cult. Cults need people to hate after all:
Or those who do evil deeds think that they can outstrip Us (i.e. escape Our Punishment)? Evil is that which they judge!
Verily, Allah knows those who believe, and verily, He knows the hypocrites [i.e. Allah will test the people with good and hard days to discriminate the good from the wicked (although Allah knows all that before putting them to test)].
And those who disbelieve say to those who believe: "Follow our way and we will verily bear your sins," never will they bear anything of their sins. Surely, they are liars.
And those who disbelieve in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and the Meeting with Him, it is they who have no hope of My Mercy, and it is they who will (have) a painful torment.
Even that quasi-drunkard Noah was punished by Muhammad's family deity and the Lord or ilah of the Kabaa shrine at the ending of the last ice age, only a mere 10.000 years or so before Muhammad invented the Al-Lah cult:
And indeed We sent Nuh (Noah) to his people, and he stayed among them a thousand years less fifty years [inviting them to believe in the Oneness of Allah (Monotheism), and discard the false gods and other deities], and the Deluge overtook them while they were Zalimun (wrong-doers, polytheists, disbelievers, etc.).
No, no insanity here. Noah was alive for 950 years, and failed to convert his people to the cult of Muhammad. For that sin, the great flood was set in motion by Al-Lah, not the rising water levels of the major rivers, the Black sea and major tributaries which fed into the Mediterranean basin due to the melting of ice. It was Al-lah. Now that is science.
There is of course no free will for the slaves of Muhammad. Al-Lah or Hub'Al wants slaves. He will choose who goes to the paradise and who will enter Hell-fire. This negation of free-will destroys the premise of a free society and of civilization itself. Slavery is not a religious theological attribute but simply the expression of a cult.