Never saw it that way.
My theory, admittedly simplitic, is that the Allah’s ultimate man, Mohammed, was a thief, murderer, rapist, liar and betrayer, and Islam goes to Hell from there.
Not a bad summary of where the Muslim world is based on what has survived those first centuries when the outcome was uncertain. These extinctions ushered in bloody electioneering to the present day among aspiring totalitarians. They grasp and retain their power by crafting superior alliances of human cunning and animal brutality. Islamic pronouncements underwrite the barbaric tactics rulers of Muslim countries use for their ascendancy. Religious authentication enables dazzling spectacle and mercurial oratory to belie principled commitment to a continuum where politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. Once acquired these skills easily replicate for managing secular philosophies from Democracy to Communism. Why would the Muslim Brotherhood or any organizations like Ai Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their successors ever abandon strategies proven over a thousand years? The natural result in our present time establishes “The Democratic (or) Islamic Peoples Republic of Whatever”.
People say Islamic religious fanatics want to take us back to the eighth century. That looks to me to be detrimental to their cause. At that time going another direction seemed an option.