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Free advertising for my friend Susan’s newish blog. Show it some love. Pop Muslim » About. Susan Carland was listed on the “500 Most Influential Muslims in the World” in 2009, and was also named in 2009 as one of the international “Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow” by the U.N. Alliance of Civilisations and the ASMA Society. She is a lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, and was Co-Creator and panelist on the critically-acclaimed Australian national network television program “Salam Cafe”, a Muslim comedy panel and sketch show.

Islamic Innovation Celebrated in Queens Exhibition – NYTimes.com. There lies the heart of the problem. An awfully long time has passed since anyone thought of the Muslim world in general, let alone the Arab world in particular, as an incubator of great ideas in science or technology. Not to be flippant, but radicals’ devising ways to equip suicide bombers doesn’t cut it.  The fact, however, is that some of history’s finest scientists and scholars once emerged from predominantly Muslim societies, extending from Spain to China across a long stretch of time that began in the seventh century.