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 Moslem world of 'peace' or Salam. Islam does not mean peace, nor does it have any connection with the idea of peace. Islam means the act of submission to Muhammad's cult. Submitting will mean peace, once the entire globe is under the rule of the Muhammadan cult. But that ideal is a far cry from 'peace', or inter-faith relationships which are not fractious, violent, or prone to civilisational conflicts. In Islamic liturgy peace will only be achieved when Muhammad's alter-ego, the Allah male moon deity and dialectical force, rules all of humanity.
49:009 And if two parties or groups among the believers fall to fighting, then make peace between them both, but if one of them rebels against the other, then fight you (all) against the one that which rebels till it complies with the Command of Allah; then if it complies, then make reconciliation between them justly, and be equitable. Verily! Allah loves those who are equitable.
Verily Allah only loves Moslems. So if you are a good Moslem and a non-Moslem refuses to submit and be 'peaceful' as the Moslem cult expands and demands, then by the great mercy of the Allah-thing, you are compelled to make them comply with his cult. How tolerant.
4:91 You will find others that wish to have security from you and security from their people. Every time they are sent back to temptation, they yield thereto. If they withdraw not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them. In their case, We have provided you with a clear warrant against them.
Once Islam dominates the world we also assume that 'climate change' will stop, the earth Mother will 'heal', and L Ron Gore, Prince Charles and the UN IPCC, will be turbanized. Joy, bliss and Salam.
'Peace' appears 586 times in the cult document named Recital or the Koran. Many of these references are the usual insipid 'peace be upon him' when referring to the political-military-slave trader and profligate sex addict Muhammad. Most of the rest are 'laws' about how to achieve 'peace', or strictures about enforcing a 'peace' between two aggrieved parties. The most numerous of the verses with Salam in the Koran reference how to achieve Islamic peace within the world, or in other words, how to spread the moon cult of Allah so that all humans will be peacefully prostrated to Muhammad.
2:120 Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him) till you follow their religion. Say: "Verily, the Guidance of Allah (i.e. Islamic Monotheism) that is the (only) Guidance. And if you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him) were to follow their (Jews and Christians) desires after what you have received of Knowledge (i.e. the Qur'an), then you would have against Allah neither any Wali (protector or guardian) nor any helper.
Jews and Christians will never be peaceful since they are not reconciled to Allah. Moslems believe that they are better than Jews since the Koran is the last word of the divine Allah, who is conflated quite erroneously in the fevered mind of Moslems with the Jewish Jehovah. They are completely dissimilar constructs of course. But anyways, the Moslem demands that the Jew follow Allah since the deity of Muhammad's family is really Jehovah 2.0 – an updated and improved version of the Abraham and Moses original.
20:47 So go you both to him, and say: 'Verily, we are Messengers of your Lord, so let the Children of Israel go with us, and torment them not; indeed, we have come with a sign from your Lord! And peace will be upon him who follows the guidance!
The Jews and Christians are Zalimun, engaged in Shirk and Faisqun, since they reject the 'clean' theology of Allah and engage in the 'unclean', 'unjust' and impious worship of false idols [the Jews] or polytheism [the Christians].
6:82 It is those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah and worship none but Him Alone) and confuse not their belief with Zulm (wrong i.e. by worshipping others besides Allah), for them (only) there is security and they are the guided.
The Koran is clear that Allah is the unitary divine inspiration for monotheistic prostration. No other idol, god, or godhead can be tolerated. This is of course the opposite ideal of what the Moslemophiles and Islamic cult members propagandize. The lie that Islam is tolerant is manifest to anyone who has taken the effort to read even a tithe of the Koran.
5:16 Wherewith Allah guides all those who seek His Good Pleasure to ways of peace, and He brings them out of darkness by His Will unto light and guides them to a Straight Way (Islamic Monotheism).
Allah is the only free-will force in the universe. Only he or it, can bring you the Infidel out of darkness to bathe in the bright light of truth as rendered by Muhammad and his cult. This seems suspiciously like dialectical supremacism [see Nazism and Communism for more].
6:127 For them will be the home of peace (Paradise) with their Lord. And He will be their Wali (Helper and Protector) because of what they used to do.
Only Moslems will achieve Salam. Earthly peace is created when all are bowed to Muhammad's dictatorial work of supremacism. Heavenly peace will only be bestowed by the Allah-thing, who has a monopoly on free-will, and controls all thoughts, actions and deeds of all beings and objects, all the time, every second of every day, of every year. Salam does not mean 'peace' in the Western sense of that word, nor does it mean 'go with God' or 'good luck'. It means follow Allah. It is simply another code word for Islamic supremacism.