What do you think arabs or muslims should do in order to advance the west technologically and in the field of sciences?
I think the solution is that those butchers regimes should be wiped out and put an elected government, then learn everything the west has and then move on with researches and bring scientists from everywhere and provide them with research labs, materials and $$$
With this system corporate environments thrive while public opinion remains very optimistic and everyone is very well educated, fostering political, economic, and industrial growth throughout your society, once you successful garner nuclear power without being invaded, you have done enough research to begin developing nuclear weapons and you have enough credibility to barely get away with it. At this point while you are not a world superpower, you are middle eastern superpower with a huge say over the happenings in that region. If you develop further you may even catch up to the big boys.
They were Greeks and Persians who happened to be under Arab rule and happened to be Muslim.
Reform education, deemphasis islam in the classrooms and liberalize Islam. Turkey did that and it's the economic powerhouse of the Muslim world.