This phrase jumped out at me. Is there a different sort of biology in the East? I'm not aware of any such, at least since Stalin decreed Lysenkoism to be true (since it agreed with his "scripture", the Communist writings of Marx and Lenin) and sending the Darwinists to the Gulag.
Biology as taught in the Islamic countries is generally Creationist. (Often it seems that Islamic science has retreated since the thirteenth century.)