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.
Miller in 'The Prophetic Fall of the Islamic Regime' states:
“Speculations abound as to Allah's real identity. Archeologists have uncovered temples to the moon god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most widespread religion of the ancient world was the worship of the Moon god. Evidence suggests that Islam is nothing more than a revival of the ancient Moon-god cult. As a matter of fact Islam has taken the symbols, the rites, the ceremonies, and even the name of its god from this pagan religion.”
This is entirely accurate. Islam has nothing more in common with Christianity than Shintoism. The moon cult was a 3000 year old regime by the time Muhammad entered the Meccan scene. Hub'Al or the moon deity of Mecca, was the family idol of Muhammad ibn Abdullah [the slave of Allah]; and his family the chief caretaker of the Hub'Al at the Ka'ba shrine. There is some noise that Hub'Al and Allah might be different idols but this is entirely irrelevant.
The glaring fact that all of the rites, attributes and symbols of moon worship are still embedded in Islam is a forceful and factual counter-argument to the above thesis that somehow moon worship is divorced from the cult named Submission. Submit to whom exactly? This Allah is never defined. Muhammad most certainly is. You should perhaps submit to both Muhammad and this Allah; thereby implying that Muhammad is the Allah, or at the very least, on par with it ? Whatever the exactitude, Islam is in simple terms; the worship of the moon deity. This is why the Koran never explains who or what this Allah-thing is. Every Arab would know that it represented the chief and high god of the moon. Muhammad's 'invention' was to name himself as its spokesman.
In the politically-correct 'academic' study by Princeton University named, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought', the moon cult which informs Islam is presented as both its starting point and informational-theological source of power and ritualization:
“These ideas came from two principal sources: on the one hand from the religious environment into which he [Muhammad] was born, the tribal-cult of pre-Islamic Arabia with its fatalistic notions and pagan practices that were observed in his hometown, and on the other from a medley of mainly Christian sectarian beliefs, certain Jewish practices, and some Manichean notions he encountered during his youth in Mecca.”
No more willing Dhimmis, who would love to be subservient to the pagan-fascist cult of Islam, exist than Ivy League academics. Yet even these masters of deception are forced to admit, rather obtusely, that the pagan practices of Meccans, along with garbled and largely incorrect Judeo-Christian theology, informs the cult of Submission.
Miller's book deals with specific Islamic regimes [Hussein's Iraq which was a mixture of secular-Islamic governance]; and why they will, or must be forced to, collapse. Islam by its own immorality and illogical ravings will indeed quite likely, en masse, collapse. The Ivy League professors on the other hand usually promote Islam as some sort of statist-project to be used to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization and allow the 'really clever people' [themselves] to accrue more power. These acolytes of fascist thought are more concerned with relativity, expressing admiration for a totalitarian cult, and advising cowardice and ignorance in the appraisal of Islam. After all 2+2 might indeed 5. So spake the quackademics.
Whatever your world view of Islam it is a factual truism, that the moon cult of the region and in particular that of the pagan Meccans, is the basic foundation of this theological fascism. About that there can be no dispute. Whether you decide that such Bronze-Age [or even copper-age] cult formation is necessary and 'moral' in the 21rst century, after 1400 years of war, jihad, slaughter, destruction and hate across most of the globe; will indeed indicate quite a lot your grasp on reality and to use that over-used secular-marxist term, your 'humanistic' conception of life itself.