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.
The Critical Quran by Robert Spencer.
The problem with the cult of Mecca, centred on the moon deity Baal or Al Lah, is in the cult’s texts. You won’t discover this at ‘university’, nor will an ‘academic’ enlighten you. They are mostly anti-Christian, anti-Orthodox Western civilisation (long since dead) and adamantly for any theology, philosophy or position which will unhinge the modern from the traditional and cultural.
In reality there are many differences between the cult of Muhammad and Christianity. Two obvious cleavages find their loci in the reality that the once Christian-West was based on critical thought and the unitary Golden Rule, Islam is based on a complete and total or totalitarian system which merges church, state, society, private life and even private thoughts and expressions into a ritualised formula of obeisance and exactitude in process and belief. This leads to a dichotomous view of the world, the Muslim versus the Infidel, the pious Muhammandan against the Jew, Christian, Hindu, and Atheist. No ethical expressions are allowed for non-Muslims within this bifurcated worldview.
This book goes through what the Muslim texts and theology actually state. And how this has generated 1400 years of Jihad, imperialism and carnage.