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.
'Allah' or the 'Lord' is Hub'al the male moon deity of Mecca, and the most important pagan idol within the 360-idol Kabaa shrine. There are 284 mentions of the 'moon' within Mein Koran which makes sense given the celestial-pagan antecedents of the cult of Submission [Islam]. Muhammad's family deity was Hub'Al with his family name being slave of Allah or Abdullah.
To be fair the Koran does try its best to hide the fact that Allah or the Lord is Hub'al. There is a migration in the Koran from what Sura 53 calls Allah 'Sirius' the Moon Lord, to the overwhelming universal power, with the only free-will in the cosmos. In this transformation the 'ilah' or 'Lord' becomes the only power to be venerated. The Satanic Verses – or political compromise – in which Muhammad begs the Meccans to leave him alone and worship what he wants if he would recognize the Meccan pagan idols of Allah [Sun], Uzza and Manat [Venus, Mars]; is jettisoned. The stronger the Moslem cult becomes the more powerful becomes the Allah.
If Allah is not the moon god, then why is the crescent moon the symbol of the cult of Submission, on national flags and on every single mosque ? Moslems have no plausible answer to this question.
In the Near East in ancient times the worshipping celestial objects including the moon was common. The Moon god had various names and incarnations including; Sin [Babylonian], Suen and in pagan Arabia Allah. Allah and Lunar worship was so common that the Jewish Torah mentions it many times as a 'sin' or violation of the true god's immanence and purpose [Deuteronomy 4:19, and 17:3, II Kings 21:3 and 5, and 23:5, Jeremiah 8:2, and 19:13, and Zephaniah 1:5]. The moon 'god' brought night, a relief from the heat, morning dew and heralded the change of seasons including perhaps harbingers of rain.
600 years before Christ the Kabaa shrine was built and the idol prima-inter-pares was Hub'Al the ilah or Lord of the Meccan shrine which would contain over time, 360 idols. This Allah or moon idol was recognized as the 'Father' of all the other gods. Central to this worship was a black asteroid rock which tantalized the pagan Arabs. They believed that their 'ilah' or Lord had sent this gift and so the Kabaa was built on the site of where the asteroid rock landed. To this day it is a Moslem duty to kiss this black rock at least once in a lifetime.
All Muhammad did was keep all of the pagan Arab practices and make this Hub'Al the only 'god'. Eventually as the Moslem cult became a military-predatory regime, and after Mecca was conquered in 630 AD, all other idols were effaced at the Kabaa. Only Hub'Al or Allah was left and this became the universal 'god' of the Moslem polycracy. The military dictatorship forced this upon the pagan Arabs and when Muhammad was murdered by his own men in circa 632 AD, who were no doubt sick and tired of his 'revelations', greed, sex-addiction, and totalitarian control; the pagan Arab tribes revolted, casting off the Meccan Allah, preferring their own ancient traditions to the centralized, tax grabbing, corrupt and self aggrandizing cult of Muhammad.