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.
True Moslems must hate the symbols of Christianity. The Koran mandates such intolerance by first disavowing Christianity as pagan and criminal, and second by outlawing the veneration of any religious symbols. Therefore Moslems cannot abide by any Christian or Christmas symbol including the cross, a Christmas tree, a Christmas decoration, or the nativity. Most cities in the West have been cowed by the Moslem supremacists to remove public votives of Christian theology at Christmas time. Gone are stars on trees; nativity scenes; and even crosses. The Koran is very clear that Christians are polytheist criminals and must be killed, crucified, and humiliated to quote Sura 5:33. The Trinity is declared by the Koran to be a polytheism, and Christian symbols representations of that 'error'.
The Arab imperialist project was an effort by Mohammed to unify the Arab tribes, quell intra-Arab discord and conflict; and steal Jewish and Christian property and wealth in the Arabian peninsula. In order to justify the murder of Jews and Christians, and the appropriation of their land, property, women and money, the totalitarian Mohammed had to come up with some 'revelations' from the moon idol, Al-Allah, which was quite conveniently the chief deity of Mohammed's branch of the Quraysh tribe. This unknowable, impersonal thing Allah could justify unbridled war against the 'unbelievers' and through his mouthpiece Mohammed, express the necessity of ridding Arabia of the polytheist Christians, and the Islam-denying Torah followers. The Koran, Allah and Mohammed, all demanded a purity of submission and the mere presence of Jews and Christians with their mental and material filth, could not be tolerated.
Happily for Mohammed the moon idol Allah [The One or Lord Hub'Al], is deeply concerned with Mohammed's success and the exportation of a violent fundamentalism which demanded ritualization, submission and the division of the world into us vs. them. In fact when reading the Koran, the thing Allah sounds suspiciously like Mohammed. Indeed throughout Islamic liturgy which is expressed in the first person, Mohammed and Allah seem quite likely one and the same. What a happy coincidence indeed!
This means of course that Mohammed's desires for women, booty, power, war, and genocide, were supported in toto, by the moon idol. Even better for Mohammed, Allah could be blamed for the rampant annihilation of Jewish and Christian innocents, and the destruction of their cities, property and wealth. Since everything in Islam is done according to the will of the thing Allah, it perforce stands to reason that the eradication of Jews and Christians is an impersonal, dialectical event, begat from the will of the great moon deity whose immanence and omnipotence cannot be resisted and must be followed. Like the good soldiering fascist that he was, Mohammed could justify his actions by pointing to the moon idol, even though the literature is pretty clear that the thing Al-Lah and Mohammed are one and the same.
In any event the Koran, based on Mohammed's 'revelations' and actions, displays a deep, atavistic animus, barbaric in the extreme towards Christianity. Muslims today cannot deny this. Nor can they deny the following which comes right out of their 'sacred' book:
"Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme." (Koran 8:37)
"When the Sacred Months are over, kill those who ascribe partners to God wheresoever ye find them; seize them, encompass them, and ambush them; then if they repent and observe prayer and pay the alms, let them go their way (Koran 4:5).
"Fight against those who believe not in God nor in the Last Day, who... refuse allegiance to the True Faith from among those who have received the Book, until they humbly pay tribute out of hand." (Koran 9:29)
"...kill the disbelievers wherever we find them" (Koran 2:191);
"fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" (Koran 9:5);
"murder them and treat them harshly" (Koran 9:123).
"Seize ye him, and bind ye him, And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits! This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High. And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! So no friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds, Which none do eat but those in sin." (Koran 69:30-37)
"Strike off the heads of the disbelievers"; and after making a "wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives" (Koran 47:4).
"Instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers"; "smite above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them" (Koran 8:12; cp. 8:60).
"O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern against them. Their abode is Hell - an evil refuge indeed" (Koran 9:73).
"slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace..." (Koran 5:34).
"for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods" (Koran 22:19-22)
This savagery against Christians is extensive within Islamic liturgy. The above are only some Koranic verses which demonstrate this, many others could also be shown. Muslims always portray themselves as 'victims' but within Islam, any infidel left on earth is a natural affront to Allah and must be confronted. Thus when we read this verse; "Fight for the sake of Allah those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. Allah does not love the aggressors." (Koran 2:190), we must keep in mind that even a Muslim attack on an infidel is sanctioned as being a defensive action. This is because in part, it is Allah himself that is really the one killing the Christians:
Allah "will punish them by our hands..." (Koran 9:14).
Thus 9-11 is a defensive act, since the Christians are initially at fault [Christian presence in 7th century Arabia, the Crusades, GW Bush, Russian imperialism, the Reconquista etc etc.]. This mindset is a genetic component of Islamic aggression. This is why even if Israel was erased from the map, the Muslim Jihad would never stop. Other excuses over 'aggressive actions against Muslims' would be given to justify Islamic imperialism.
It is clear that the Muslim hatred of Christianity is an important part of its supremacist-fascist liturgy. Christianity cannot be tolerated within the world, since everyone must submit to Allah. The Christians are therefore an implacable foe of Muslim aspiration. Anyone who does not understand this, is not facing up to the reality of either Islamic theology or its historical imperialism.