Can we assume that that's a rhetorical question? You and know that the Religion of Pieces never *left* the medieval era.
Until like Judaism and Christianity that went through the Renaissance, the Reformation and the age of Reason, the Muslims are doing a terrifying purification of their religion by going back to their founding scripts and taking them literally.
If their book tells them to wipe their asses with three smooth stones, then look out, the desert is going to be picked clean of rocks.
They can’t handle the modern world, so they are trying to destroy it, and using the tactics that only barbarians would use.