Wait a second, let’s stop right here. Do a little search on google for “dhimmi” and lets see if you still stand by this paragraph.
Were muslims at the time more tolerant then Europeans? Yes. But that doesn’t mean it was a paradise…Very far from it. In fact in occupied Iberia, there were several “pogroms” against Christians and Jews, in towns like Toledo, Valencia and Seville.

As a Turk I am flabbergasted you would say Turkey had a stong democracy for 80 years. That is bunk. We had a military dictatorship for many decades until a few short years ago. This is not a contested or subjective point.
Also you say the Arabs were “very tolerant” of minorities. That is simply not a fact at all.

I am really suprised at how superficial your analysis is.

I would strongly recommend the book “Mohammed and Charlemagne.” It argues that Western European culture became distinctive beacuse of a grinding, decades-long quarantine by the Arabs. During this interdiction, Western Europe lost even trivial trade with the east and “dropped out” of the Mediterranean economy.

In other words France, Italy, Germany became the “Gap” which eventually formed a competing Core that smashed its rival. (Britain, with no continuity to the Empire, just fell off the Barbarians’ New Map altogether). So the argument isn’t that Turkey was disconnected from the West — it was the West was disconnected from Turkey.

And yes, the same criticism could be made to keep Greece, Spain, or even Britain out of a new Carolingia. Fortunately no one listened to the frogophones.

France’s Europe worth creating is being destroyed step-by-step. Jolly good, I say.