There used to be a man, a couple of hundred years ago, a Muslim who flew a device he made from one side of the Bosphorus to the other. The first intercontinental flight. Some call him "Ibn Baaz" but if you search up history you can find his real name (skips my mind just now).
When the Ulema of that era heard this, they condemned him. Saying there is nowhere in Islam where men can fly and this is not an attribute of man. After a fatwa was passed against him, he left, never to be heard of again (at least in today's history).
Imagine what the Muslim world would have been had this man not been treated that way. We would have beaten the Wright Brothers a couple of hundred years before the West. Today we would be running drones and bombing their cities, not the other way around.
It is a systemic problem. I spent a lifetime studying this problem and wrote a PhD thesis related to the civilizational decline of the Muslim world. The core of this problem, if it was to be reduced to one line is this:
The Ummah decayed when Muslims stopped worshiping Allah alone and started worshiping bearded men alongside Allah, who made up laws and "opinions" that were enforced as law, and destroyed the ethical values of Islam.
I realized the depth of this problem when once, arguing with the British Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad, he said (after reading one of my books) that if I said what I am saying in the time of the Ottoman sultanate, I would have been condemned by the law, and henceforth my testimony in court even would not be considered valid, as I would forever be labelled a fasiq.