You are right about the borrowed part, but what do you mean pale mans religion. Do you mean white mans. Muhhamed was part black. His grandfather was black. Yes Islam is the worship of the moon god al ilat or something. It is an ancient moon worship religion that was the main religion of that area, from Ethiopia to Iran to Turkey. It was most popular in Sumeria. Mohammed was illiterat, he could not read or write. He was a merchant on cammel caravans. He was actually quite violent, so all this Islam is peace is really funny. They conquered his onw city and took it over and made islam the religion of mecca. He was not living in mecca at the begining of his movement because they had kicked him out because of his teachings. The muslims took, conquered, the lands from Saudi arabia to Spain by force, and made them convert to Islam or die, the pagans, the Jews and Christian were heavily taxed and discrimized againts, although Islam comes from the Judeo Christian religion. They tried in Ethiopia but did not succeed in taking it from the hands of the Christian, only the eastern parts near the border on the land of Punt, todays Somalia. Somalia is the colonizers name for it.

So Islam has never been a religion of peace, although it is the most excepting religion when it comes to color. But then again the Muslims still held slaves, black slaves, but they were not Muslim blacks. They were not allowed to have muslim slaves, but they could have others.