Do you agree the parallels between the Middle Ages and now are uncanny?

Question

Then:
Reformation - Christians fighting Christians
Crusades - Christians figting Muslims
Culture - Caliphate retained classical Greek learning, advances in math and science, art, music, and technology. Europe lived in sh*t, Church kept the masses ignorant.

Now:
Sectarian Violence - Muslims fighting Muslims
War on Terror - Non-Muslims fighting Muslims
Knowledge - Western countries have led the world in math, science, art, music, and technology. Middle Eastern countries have been trying to recuperate from the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Europe and Christianity made it through their "Middle Ages." Will the Middle East and Islam make it through theirs?

Answer 1

The middle east used to be far ahead of us in the middle ages and Baghdad and Mecca were actually huge centers of learning for the eastern world where on could purchase books and debate with scholars no matter what religion you are I believe they are hitting a second middle age period caused by the violence goin on in the middle east now and since the crusades arguably western culture would benifit from taking note of this and trying to learn from the mistakes as we do not want to do the same to creat further animosity and risk losing our technological davances and I don't mean just muslim /non muslim violence I mean groups like the Aryan NAtion and Black Muslims ( the american version that malcolm x denounced) and sinn fean stop it before it contiues to spiral downward

Answer 2

The middle ages were a good time for Europe, no big problems and culture and learning on a highly developed level.