What’s amazing is that there are muslim countries that haven’t moved a day past the 7th century and muslim countries that are at the leading edge of the 21st century.
I’m sure there’s a moral to that story. I just do’t know what it is yet.
Having spent the better part of the last three years in the UAE supporting aerospace projects, I can say that their leadership has a vision and also the money to have others implement it. They need the “West” to make their country work.
The Emirate of Dubai( there are 7 emirates in the United Arab Emirates- like US States) was modernized because of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He’s a western Educated pretty cutting Edge thinking man. Anyway, he knows that the Oil money wont last forever so he heavily invests in other infrastructure that attracts the world’s travelers and that’s why Dubai is ahead of much of the rest of the region.