To some extent but as a culture, they are walking around with a huge chip on their shoulder. At the dawn of islam, they took a big chunk of the world and although they couldn’t take all of Europe, they got a chunk and were able to look down on the dark age europeans.
Christendom eventually kicked them out of Europe and displaced them as a world power. That loss of honor is a burden to their psyche to this day. They hate us and the only way they can regain that honor is by putting their collective boot on our neck.
Exactly. Their Islamic writings paint the Muslims in general, and Arabs in particular, as a superior people, favored by Allah.
The contrast between that perception and the current reality invites a high degree of cognitive dissonance, which can only be resolved by a self-perception as a superior warrior, and the Westerners' technologically-superior culture just making them more suitable as slaves.