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.
Baal and Allah. I wonder how many Muhammadan devotees know that they raise their hind quarters in meek subjection to both Muhammad, and Baal the Babylonian moon deity. I doubt that any have given the idea much consideration. Moslems are the world's greatest whiners, more skilled at screaming like children than the gay or eco cults, which is a prodigious feat. Their tiresome refrains – Islam is Peace, Allah means God, Islam is the same as Christianity – are mere lies packaged in ignorance wrapped in irrationality. No wonder the PC-Marxist crowd loves the Arabian moon cult so much. Never have so many had so much in common.
Some literate Moslems might know of the Sumerians [circa 2500 BC], the world's first 'multi-cult' empire. It must have been bliss and harmony within the Sumerian moon cult of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were the first great urban civilisation and manufactured advanced techniques in agriculture, building, urban development, water management and warfare. They also left behind literally thousands of tablets describing their moon god – the great lord of their pagan rituals which included sex orgies. This moon deity would be transferred from Sumeria to other Near Eastern lands. Following the Sumerians, the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Akkadians also worshipped this moon god Sin. So too did the Hittites [as a thunder god] and the Canaanites [as a sky god and lord of the chaff or fertility]. Both of these states were the enemies of the Hebrews; and both cultures enshrined the sacrifice of humans, animals and occultish rituals including bizarre sexual rites and orgies, to satiate the blood and power lust of Baal or Sin. No wonder Yahweh had a dim view of this cult. In the Bible Baal is associated with Satan.
The Baal or Sin moon god was of course married to the sun goddess and had 3 daughters. This constellation was a sacrament of cult devotion since the time of the Sumerians and certainly found its way into Arabia. The Koran mentions the 3 daughters of Baal who became as well the 3 daughters of Allah. Moslems can't explain this factoid in their denial of the obvious reality that Allah or the one is simply the Arab name for Baal. Pagan Arabs even used the name of Allah in their children’s names, such as Abdullah which was Mohammad’s father’s name meaning slave of Allah [how uplifting to be a slave]. Since Hubal was the main god of the Kabaa before the creation of Islam, we know that the 'one' or Allah is Hubal. Allah does not mean god of course. It simply means the 'one' or the main 'Lord', exactly the same meaning as given by the Babylonians to their Baal or 'Sin'.
Before the rise of the political project named Islam, Hubal or Hub'Al [which generates 'Al Lah] was the main Lord of the shrine or Kabaa at Mecca. Hub'Al was the Meccan's moon god and the most important 'one' of the pantheon, hence the appellation 'ilah'. This Hub'Al, like the Sumerian and Babylonian moon deity[ies] had 3 daughters. The Koran mentions them: Al-Lat which is the feminine version of Allah, Al-Uzza and Manat. But Mohammed unable to extirpate the knowledge of the Sumerian moon deity and its 3 daughters from pagan Arab consciousness, does chastise them in the Koran by attributing daughters to Allah specifically. The Koran, created supposedly by the moon deity Hub'Al or ilah, oftentimes claim that 'god' can have no sons [Jesus] or daughters [the moon goddesses] or a mother [Mary]. The Koran takes a dim view of anything being associated with the Hub'Al [lah] making it a sin to conflate and person or object with the ilah.
Muhammad the politician recognized the base fact that Hubal or Allah had 3 daughters and the sun as his consort. The renaming of Hub'Al to Allah is a tool to conflate his family and tribe's main idol – Hub'Al – with monotheism. He of course is the only worthy messenger and prophet:
“O people! If you are in doubt as to my religion, then know that I do not serve those whom you serve besides Allah but I do serve Allah, who will cause you to die, and I am commanded that I should be of the believers.” (10:104)
“I am forbidden to serve those whom you call upon besides Allah when clear arguments have come to me from my Lord, and I am commanded that I should submit to the Lord of the worlds.” (40:66)
What Muhammad is saying is that this Hub'Allah is simply the idol primus inter pares. He cannot deny that other idols exist. He is making the claim that Hub'Allah is the greatest or Allahu Akhbar. The new name of Hub'Al references the first and most important idol amongst all the pagan deities. The 'Lord' of the idols, 'whom you serve besides Allah' are inferior to Allah. Worship them if you want, Muhammad is saying, but I am serving the most exalted 'Lord' or 'Sin' who is superior to your idols. And when Islamic armies sweep through Arabia and wipe out the Jews, the Christians and any pagan Bedouins who oppose them, it does indeed appear to the average Arab that Hub'Al is on the side of the Moslems, and it is usually better to join the winning team and partake of the spoils, women and plunder, than to sit gaping, stupid and still poor, remonstrating about lost idols and false deities.
The historical point is however obvious. We can trace a direct line between Sargon's Sumerian empire and its moon deity worship replete with pagan barbarism and rituals right to Islam, Muhammad and modern day Moslem practices. Surely this must be a disconcerting fact for Moslems? Surely Moslems might want to inquire into the past history of their cult; its origination; its antecedents; its imperialist history; its blood soaked present; its failed political-economy; its racism and supremacism; its unmatched violence and immaturity? But as we also know culture is king. It is highly unlikely that someone saturated in the belief system of a neolithic cult has the ability, the courage and the rationality to challenge their own cult, their own worldly assumptions and the insipid demands of an illiterate military, racist, sex-slave owning, polygamous butcher named Muhammad. Such is the misery of Islam and being Moslem.