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About 900 years ago Islam was a militant but also intellectual sect. They had scholars who studied everything and anything and made real contributions. For example Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī is credited with laying out the principles of algebra (an islamic word). Crucually, muslim scholars also preserved and translated the words of Aristotle which would have otherwise been lost and which formed the basis of western thought as great western thinkers like Aquinas embraced them and devoured and debated the commentaries of Arab scholars like Averroes.

But people like al-Khwārizmī and Averroes worked in the 12th century and prior. After that it's like that light went out on Islamic scholarship. What happened?

It started with this: the fundamentalists had a problem. In their view, everything man needed to know was in the koran, and anything science could reveal which wasn't in the koran (or worse, contradicted it) was thus a lie created by satan. So basically science was to be avoided because it could only corrupt. They won the debate. And as a result Islam devolved into a primative, bloodthirsty gang that burn people for casting evil spells and other absurd medieval nonsense. For 1,000 years they have existed in this primative state. All because someone decided that agenda trumped science.

Woe unto us if we allow that to happen to the west. Its already beginning with the rise of 'consensus' science centered around political objectives.