And the reason you can't get those commodities is the residents are preoccupied with keeping their intellectual volume the size of a walnut.
Case in point: when you look at the "toolkit" of the 9/11 hijackers, you find flight schools, jumbo jets, credit cards, cell phones, the internet, a civil society which allows people a certain anonnymity, a government security apparatus sensitive to the notions of rights and legal niceties, topless bars, gambling casinos, driver's licenses, passports, wire transfer services, ATM networks, international air travel, and even boxcutters.
These are all the results of Western culture an every level of human endeavor: political, scientific, economic, industrial and cultural.
What did the Islamic society provide to the mix?
Nineteen nutjobs committed to a failed 7th century political philosophy disguised as a religion, raw emotion (rage and envy) and a death wish.
Yep, I can see why the Islamic world is so pissed off. Especially when you're the "chosen people" of God, you live in abject poverty (both economic and cultural) and you can't even mass produce your own boxcutters.