Attempting to transpose the European/Christian experience and chain of events onto the Islamic world is a serious mistake. The situations are worlds apart, and their best outcomes require very different solutions.
Christianity was the cause of European stagnation, whilst in the Islamic world, lack of Islam was the cause of stagnation. Whilst Europeans clung to Christianity, they were backwards and declined. Whilst Muslims clung to Islam they were the leaders of the known world, advanced and developed. When Europeans fell away from Christianity, they advanced and developed, when Muslims fell away from Islam they stagnated and declined. This is well documented historical fact.
So the solution for Muslims is not a "renaissance", since Islam does not contain thoughts that hinder civilisational progress (this is proven already). The solution is a revival of and return to Islam, and this is what the Muslims are heading towards. The leaders of the Muslim world, are not in step with this, they are merely puppets of the colonialists who put them there, who drew up the countries in the Sykes-Picot conference. They will be cast aside in the Islamic revival, and this is what the West fears since it means they will lose control over the region, hence the intense focus on the Muslim world, and the War on Islam (known by it's more politically correct title 'War on terror').
