Although I can understand why those not studied in Hindu Philosophy might mistake Hinduism for being a polytheistic faith; it's actually rather pragmatic, in that: polytheism, pantheism and monotheism (heck, even athiesm) are all schools of thoughts accepted in astika/nastika (schools).

The vast majority of Hindus are pantheist, including myself; this means that we belive in an unexplainable God, ie 'Brahman', something so vast that we cannot describe it ourselves.

The only way for us to recognise God is through the universe and its attributes; each 'God' is yet another attribute of the universe, that we recognise and use combined mythology/history and philosophy to explain. For example, you'd be far reaching to find any Hindu that actually believes that 'Navadurga', the multiarmed Godess, actually existed on our metaphysical earth; more, we use Navadurga to tell us a story about earth, creation and our observable universe.

I cannot get behind Islam because it is a naturally prosyletising belief and it is largely literalist; I also don't like the lack of acceptance over witness accounts, or 'Hadeeths', whenever a Muslim wants a quick get out card from critisism.

Any faith that is willing to put a fatwa on peoples heads just for questioning, critisising their faith, is not one for me:

I mean, have a look and listen yourself at the ludicrious things that Islam espouses: https://soundcloud.com/sye-ten/the-sound-of-muslims