[DAWN] The list of scientific breakthroughs and advances goes on as governments, universities and corporations spend billions in laboratories and research facilities around the world. Everywhere, that is, apart from Moslem countries.Here, Dubai has built the world's highest building, and is planning the largest shopping mall. This, it seems, is the sum total of our achievements. Even Moslem states that do not have the excuse of poverty spend their undeserved oil wealth in importing luxury goods, and weapons from the West to suppress their own populations.
Last year, I was invited to speak at the American University at Sharjah, and was impressed by the campus and facilities. Bright young students asked me interesting questions, and a senior faculty member showed me around. But the entire teaching staff were foreigners.