Criticizing Islam is racist?

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It's ironic really that those wishing to re-establish the Caliphate in the ME now imagine a system which is actually centuries backwards from the Caliphates of old in terms of social and scientific advancement. Not to say the region didn't have its barbarity back then however because it obviously did.

That's true. But true to any religious radicals they have no idea what their culture stood for in the past. The barbarity back then was global by todays standards. Islamic realms weren't any more or less barbaric than the christian ones.