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The Muslim world has been hewing to this maladaptive approach to the matter since the fourteenth century, when the Holy Qu'ran was officially placed off-limits to non-religious inquiry and/or pokes with a stick. Christianity never successfully pulled off the same stunt Christendom-wide, the Holy Inquisition notwithstanding -- there were always those who could fight the Inquisition off and they did so.
Islam's decline in the sciences, which they had hitherto been world-class players in, dates from that time. Losing free inquiry has borne centuries of marginalization, and now this bitter fruit.
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