Which ability are Muslims superior in?
Blowing up people?
Medieval Islamic society made great strides under the Abbasid Caliphate. Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Other subjects of scientific inquiry included alchemy and chemistry, botany, geography and cartography, ophthalmology, pharmacology, physics, and zoology.
Doesn't mean the modern radical versions are anything but assholes, but you can't deny contributions that actually occurred in reality.