Wish this was true, still funny as hell...... http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/vw-suicide-bomber.php
Islamists have developed awesome digital clocks. http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html
More information on the background of the VW commercial can be found at: http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/vwpolo.asp
Or maybe the thread is altogether just a bit tasteless? Perhaps this thread should be called "European vs. Islamic Technolgy as of 2005", since a thousand years ago things were the opposite? -=Steve=-
Please notice the difference betwen Islamic and Islamist. Nevertheless, many of the Muslim developments you mention took place in Al-Andalus which of course is in Europe so ........