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.
Muhammad hated the Jews. They did not believe that his messed-up, garbled, illiterate decrees and lack of Old Testament knowledge and basic history, made him a 'prophet'. Muhammad desperately wanted the Jews and Christians to follow him, as the incarnation of the last prophetic Old Testament word, the last inspiration of Yahweh, the conclusion of scripture. The fact that he was insane, demonic, and quite illiterate when it came to scripture did nothing to convince the Jews and Christians that his claims were valid.
Once mad Muhammad was expelled from Mecca and forced to flee to Medina, the Koran changes its tone and attitude. Gone is the pleading to Jews, pagans and Christians that Muhammad is an Old Testament prophet. In comes the hate, the bile, the violence and the Jihad against those who did not follow.....
Gilchrist in his book on Islam, recounts why Muhammad so earnestly hated the Jews and Christians:
“Whereas the Meccans had simply ridiculed his message and generally resorted to sheer abuse of their kinsman, the Jews were able to trace many of these teachings to their own folklore and produce more damaging evidence against him. As Muhammad could not read their scriptures they were able to constantly provoke him with their knowledge and often frustrated him with subtle twists of phrases which he could not immediately detect but which entertained the Jewish bystanders. For example, Exodus 24.7 states that the Jews at Sinai answered Moses "All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient", but in the Qur'an we discover that the Jews, when commanded to hearken to God's Law on the Mount, allegedly answered "We hear and we disobey" (Surah 2.93). Muhammad later discovered that his informants had subtly misled him on this point and the Qur'an duly censures them for this particular deception:
Of the Jews there are those who displace words from their (right) place and say: "We hear and we disobey". Surah 4.46
It was too late, however, to rectify the unfortunate error that they had succeeded in introducing into the text of the Qur'an. As Muir continues, "Mahomet evidently smarted at this period under the attacks of the Jews" (The Life of Mahomet, p. 179). Other authors comment in a similar vein:
It was not that the Jews refused to recognise Muhammad as a prophet, nor even that they engaged in political intrigue against him, serious as such attitudes and actions were. Much more serious was the Jewish attack on the ideational basis of Muhammad's preaching. It had been claimed that the Qur'an was a message from God and thus inerrant; and it had also been claimed that there was a large measure of identity between the Qur'anic message and what was to be found in the previous scriptures. If the Jews, then, maintained that there were errors and false statements in the Qur'an (because it disagreed with their Bible) and that therefore it could not be a message from God, they were threatening to destroy the foundations of Muhammad's whole religious movement. (Watt, What is Islam?, p. 102).
Yet, doubtless, the Prophet's ultimate determination to destroy the Jews was due to his secret recognition of their superior knowledge of matters on which he claimed (Margoliouth, Mohammed and the Rise of Islam, p. 233).
The end result was as predictable as it was crucial to the success of Muhammad's ministry - the neutralisatlon of the Jews as an effective force in Medina. This took place chiefly through the deportation of two of the tribes and the annihilation of the third, but at the same time Muhammad also sought to discredit them in other ways and "the portions of the Koran given forth at this period teem with invectives against the Israelites" (Muir, The Life of Mahomet, p.180). Here are a few examples of this trend in the last Surah making up the revelation:
The Jews say: "God's hand is tied up". Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for the (blasphemy) they utter . . . Amongst them we have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, God cloth extinguish it; But they (ever) strive to do mischief on the earth. And God loveth not those who do mischief. Surah 5.67
Thou seest many of them turning in friendship to the unbelievers. Evil indeed are (the works) which their souls have sent forward before them (with the result) that God's wrath is on them and in torment will they abide. Surah 5.83”
In other words, illiterate and dumb Muhammad did not know what he was talking about regarding scripture, the word of the Jewish and Christian god, nor about what the Old Testament and Gospels contained and proclaimed. His ignorance was easily shown up by the Jews and Christians. To neuter the criticism he waged war. He exterminated 2 large Jewish tribes and exiled another. Christians were likewise exterminated once Mecca was conquered. By the time he was murdered by fellow Moslems in 632 AD Muhammad's Jihadic fascism had effectively eliminated the Jews and Christians from Arabia.