The Golden Shackle
Pakistan, Sept. 11 -- The Muslim world's contribution to world GDP is only about 5%, which goes down to 3% without the inclusion of oil and gas. With one quarter of the world's population, our share of the total global amount spent on Research and Development is less than 2.5%; of the 597 Nobel Prizes awarded to date, 12 have been won by Muslims, and only 3 were in the Sciences. While the rest of the world sprints forward, using the springboard of R&D to fuel the engine of innovation, the Muslim world lags behind, unable or unwilling to accept that resting on the laurels of a glorious, golden age of Islamic Science that ended in the year 1258, has consigned us to irrelevance and obsolescence. Why have we stagnated, dead in the water, whil...
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