A revealing look at Arab intellectual achievement.

There is no more telling evidence of the retarding effect of Islam on Arab intellectuals than what you will read at this site:

"Intellectual Output From The [Arab] Muslim World." The Ultimate Insult, 3/15/06.

UPDATE: Also see this from Mark Steyn:

Anyone who's spent any time in the Muslim world cannot help but be struck by its profound ignorance. The famous United Nations statistic from a 2002 report--more books are translated into Spanish in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last thousand--suggests at the very minimum an extraordinarily closed society, which in turn explains its stunted political development. For example, the editor of the Yemen Observer, Mohammed al-Asadi, wrote a strong editorial denouncing the Danish cartoons, but, like this magazine's editor, decided to show its readers what they looked like. As a result, he's now in jail. The point about Islam is that it's beyond discussion. No corner of the earth would benefit more from the ability to debate ideas openly.

"Why expect "moderate Muslims" to stand up to the Islamist radicals when our own newspaper editors won't?." By Mark Steyn, Weekly Standard, 3/13/06.