Yes. The Koran states that it is the only source of truth, and that anything outside the Koran is evil. As in, being creative, and developing new weapons.
Islamists would nuke Isreal today if they had the power. But their Koran discourages freedom to think outside, well, the Koran. Thank God. They'll use it when they can purchase it.
Quick, how many rifles were developed by Muslims? How many planes? How many grenades? How many books, other than Mohammed stories? How many antibiotics? How many disease cures? How many operas? How many symphonies? How many DNA sequences? How many satellites?
The answer is none. Their Koran forbids it--none of those things are specifically listed as allowed.
Quick, how many infidels have been blown to pieces in the past year?
You see, that is both allowed and encouraged.
Again, good thing they haven't bought nukes (yet).
Hmmm ... kind of difficult to design and build planes, grenades, satellites, space shuttles, etc. without algebra, isn't it? Algebra was invented in the Middle East, and they call 'em "Arabic numerals" for a reason. It wouldn't be much of a modern world without disciplines such as astronomy, optics, geology. botany, and medicine either. Seminal work in each of those disciplines was done in the Middle East. Let's go even farther back - how many of these wonderful inventions would have been invented in the US if somebody hadn't had an astrolabe and a magnetized needle to navigate the ships that brought our ancestors here in the first place? My history books say that the astrolabe and the concept of the magnetized needle (better known as a compass) were also invented in the Middle East (the magnetized needle came via Arabia from China).
And, in the case of the IQ of some of the posters in this thread, the Arabic invention of the concept of the number 0 is quite fitting.