In my opinion, there is one difference between these two religions that dwarfs all others. That is the fact that Islam is perhaps the most aggressively monotheistic religion in the world (except for, perhaps, Judaism). By contrast, Hinduism is definitely not monotheistic. (You can argue that it has one supreme god, but it is okay with the idea of many different deities of some sort).
A second, related, difference is that Hinduism is quite happy to have images of its gods. By contrast, Muslims are very against anything that might seem to be idolatry.
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