Sure, but the same can be said for Europe of old.
Only there is no prospect of Islamic government ever ending up at the same place we did. Leaving Islam carries the death penalty in many of them.
We're not talking preaching hell-fire and damnation, we're talking actually being executed by the state for leaving your religion.
Plus these places for a large part forbid education, forbid technology, etc. Try having any kind of progress in such a place. They will stay backwards /forever/, due to how oppressive these regimes are.