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.
A religion of stated and immanent or universal ethics would declare some or all of the following in either direct or indirect statements of intent and commandment:
-Treat ALL people with consideration and at least initially, friendliness.
-Attempt to help, trust and support your neighbour, at least until you are forced to do otherwise.
-Consider all humans to be your neighbour.
-Humans are creatures of free-will, intelligence, reason and emotional needs. Respect this fact in dealing with others and in setting up systems of societal control.
-Respect your parents, elders and those who are trying to aid those in need.
-Don't murder, kill, or maim the innocent, the old, the defenceless.
-Do not view women as sex chattel, or as breeders or caves of pleasure.
-Understand that the complexity and at times wonder and fantastic varied nature of life, means that there must be a creator, and a conscious intelligence, far in advance of our own.
-Respect the environment and the systems and life which are bi-directionally related with human development.
There is only system of spiritual and faith development which supports and deepens the above pre-requisites for civilization. That is of course Judeo-Christianity.
Here is what the cult of Muhammad, named Submission, states:
-Moslems are the uber mensch and Jews, Christians, pagans and non-Moslems, including Moslems who do not follow the totality of Koranic-Hadith theology; are inferior.
-According to the moon deity al ilah or Allah, of Mecca, it is fine to slaughter, murder, lie, steal, cheat, plunder, rape and destroy to further the aims of Muhammadism.
-Moslems are not to befriend Jews or Christians.
-Moslem women cannot marry non Moslem men.
-Moslem women are the property of men, including if married their husbands; but if unmarried the eldest male in the household.
-Moslem women, in imitation of the 11 or so wives of Muhammad, must be veiled, to hide their sexuality.
-If a Moslem woman does not obey their husband or the eldest male in the household they can be beaten or punished.
-Women are primarily to be used to produce Ghazi or warriors for Muhammad, and their vaginas are the most important piece of the marriage 'contract', which includes 'Mahr' or a payment by the man for the woman to marry him [akin to buying furniture].
-Anyone who does not follow Muhammad – Allah; can be killed and will be punished for eternity in the hereafter.
-Jews and Christians are apes and pigs who rejected Muhammad's prophethood, and corrupted their 'Books' to disavow prophecies of Muhammad's 'coming'. They are therefore liars, and greedy hypocrites and should be treated as enemies allied with Satan.
-Muhammad's cult demands not only Jihad against the Kufar [subhuman], or less than pious Moslems; it also demands a tax which should be paid to the Moslem state called the Zakat, which is viewed by Western academics as 'a charity payment'. It is not charity. It is a transfer tax, which after Muhammad died, caused a revolt against Muhammadan rule in Arabia.
-Muhammadism famously forbades art, idols, sculpture, music and indeed any advanced form of artistic expression which might allude to images, faces, forms or realism. These negations are found in the Hadith.
The only positives I can find in the Hadith or Koran; would be the following:
-Muhammad outlawed the murder of newly born girls [how else to breed ghazi, if the female is killed?].
-Prostitution around the Kabaa or cube shrine in Mecca was ended. [replaced with sex slavery of Infidel women and polygamy].
-Detailed divorce 'laws', which favor the man, but also demand fairness for the divorced wife [as long as she did not commit adultery] were developed.
-Contract law regarding commercial transactions [Muhammad was after all a trader-business man]; were clarified and implemented.
This is a rather meager list. One can therefore conclude that on balance, the totality and fascism of Islam, in which the individual is completely neutered and subsumed into the cult; and in which Moslems are told that they must war against non-Moslems until the moon deity reigns supreme; would entail that the Muhammadan cult is a massive net negative for humanity. Any person with a brain can make this calculation.
This common sense appraisal is however in direct contradistinction to most academics, media experts, church leaders and politicians.