Dawood in his forward to his Penguin translation of the Qur’an explains these are the Abrahamic religions and that these were originally Islam, but Jews and Christians deviated from what their prophets supposedly taught them (Islam)
“Children of Israel” in the Qur’an are the descendants of the people of Abraham and his son Jacob, who is also referred to as “Israel” (eg Qur’an 3:93)

http://quran.com/

http://www.qtafsir.com/

http://www.quranexplorer.com/

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“Because without this twentieth century innovation ” and before “Meanwhile we follow the Islamists preferred model”
– reproduction (both conception, birth and child rearing) is a heavy burden on women hence patriarchal. In conditions of reproductive stress (either under or overpopulated) women are more likely to be devalued because they can’t contribute as much income earning labour especially with high rates of reproduction; because men tend to become dominant if women have to often become pregnant and raise many infants because so many die, or because society is more violent when there is scarcity and/or population fluctuates a lot. Purely agricultural societies also tend to be patriarchal particularly if there is need for heavy manual labour and there is little by way of back up income for bad years.

The message that the Islamic world needs from the West is modernise your religion cos your societies are never going to succeed in making a global caliphate. Even military power in the modern world depends on maintaining technological edge. That requires an advanced economy and it requires that the science underlying it can respond to shocks and changes – social, environmental, economic, military – with new developments . This means advanced research and development and that requires a culture that values innovation. Engineers, IT people, doctors practise the discipline but they are not researchers, scientists and people who value innovation or curiosity. The USSR was a secular power but it eventually collapsed because its system was too inefficient and it could not maintain cutting edge other than nuclear. Like the Pope said Catholicism views curiosity is bad. And Islam says don’t do bidah – innovation – its a big big sin. The world has globalised and you can not un globalise it. Its not just the west, its China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, India and to a lesser extent plenty of industrialised countries.

With lowish technology, Islamists might be able to damage some other powers, or progress to some form of damaging state, but they will Never be a superpower.
Even with a fair number of engineers and doctors (mainly trained in the West) the Islamist societies are headed for being an embarrassing poverty stricken, Neanderthal mess unless they stop pretending the the modern world never happened and start humanising their religion. Stop the insane degree of obsession with purity of patriarchal lineage – designed to produce authoritarian clan groups headed and controlled by males and of necessity welded together by a very authoritarian (and pious) ruler and religion. Stop the obsession with making sharia extend to all aspects of life and making rituals permeate all aspects of life. Stop the treatment of nonbelievers within and without the religion. Stop saying the Qur’an is uncreated and divine emanation of god.

Because in reality Islamists can’t become a glorious civilisation – the “best” they can do is drive their people into the Western world where in sufficient numbers the intransigence and sheer resistance to liberal humanism of the Islamic culture forces the majority population to become much more Christian and traditionalist in response. And I would argue that Islam is many degrees more traditionalist that the great majority even of North American Christians.
Although all major religions have strong charitable elements the main features are Always around maintaining hierarchical, rigid family obligations designed to support maximum reproduction and child rearing, patriarchy – they originated in an era before technology globally reduced the mortality rate of infants aged from birth tho five – dramatically – and before reliable and ethical means of contraception (the pill) was developed. In short religions appeared before this but persist in their traditionalist form when we have the capacity to match population to environmental constraints, but not lose population unduly. Because without this twentieth century innovation – reproduction (both conception, birth and child rearing) is a heavy burden on women hence patriarchal whether in terms of women being devalued, or because they can’t contribute as much income earning labour or women having to become pregnant and raise many infants because so many die, or because society is more violent when there is scarcity and/or population fluctuates a lot. Meanwhile if we follow the Islamists preferred model, and lots of devout Muslims spread to the West – these societies as a whole becomes polarised into different communities over time, the whole gets much more conservative, thus the western societies get poorer and periodically aggressive externally too. Meanwhile the Muslim countries are a complete backward mess cos they are busy trying to assert sectarian purity and they lack the overwhelming military might to establish the equivalent of an Ottoman empire to weld them together, buffer the ruler from other clans with slave administrators and palace guard and focus dissent on war against non muslims. Meanwhile the non western superpowers are caught up in all the instability and theres probably WW3 and we all go back to crap.