Islam vs. Creativity

Via Gates of Vienna: So What’s This About Muslims and Patents?:

11th Century breaking news — Arabs invent zero. 20th century — Arabs invent zero zilch. 21st Century — Arabs beg, borrow, steal incendiary devices, or improvise, using airplanes and bodies.

Imagine if they corralled all that effort into creativity? But how can you be creative when submission is your only tool? Oh, right: submission permits you to be murderously creative.

As long as you’re killing something — why create away, brother!