Christians believe Jesus is sweet, the light, the truth and the way, the Prince of Peace, the heart of mercy, full of grace, the Christ.
Muhammad was a warrior messenger of Allah, a man, a prophet, judging and threatening and killing others.
Jesus's only violent act was to turn the tables of the thieves in the Temple. (Can a Christian scholar tell why Jesus chose to do this in this manner?)
Christians value all life whereas outside the confines of their religion, culture and law, Muslims don't.
Islam means "submission", "obedience" to everyone, else they are infidels and must be punished, apparently by physical death or mutilation.
Christianity encourages obedience to God, obedience to His commandments, a belief in Christ and awareness of one's own sinfulness, else one loses one's soul. But not necessarily must one lose their physical life on Earth.
As a scientific scholar, I can live and prosper among Christians, not so under Islam. The Islamic culture I think I would find stifling. And since I have the opportunity under Christianity to improve life, to make it more healthy and prosperous, then necessarily it must be attractive to everyone, including Muslims which brings me to butt heads with Islamic fundamentalists; therein lies a root of war. To justify their insanity, they call attention to trashy elements of Western culture, but they murder their own without what we consider due process and justice.
So yes people do reflect their cultural upbringing but Western principles will prevail unless these terrorist elements of Muslim culture are free to act out their insanity with biological and nuclear weapons.
I'm not a scholar, I'm a "discusser" but I believe Jesus' life was partially a "type". In other words, a lot of his actions were set to give parables to this time. The whipping of the moneychangers was a preview of what he's going to do in the second coming, and there's going to be no doubt to anyone who's boss!