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Some do. Pedantically, the cases I'm referring to are literally "Muslims in the west" (and perhaps fundamentalist) rather than "Westernized" or moderate Muslims. There's certainly no absolute generalization to be made though, in one direction or the other.

Well said.

I know this is overly idealistic, but it seems to me that paying for "credit" (especially in terms of research) seems "wrong". I understand paying for ownership of the results of someone's work, or paying to state that the broader organization takes credit for the body of work produced by the employees. But for one individual to pay to personally receive credit for the output of another seems blatantly dishonest.

I'm hoping someone closer to the WolframAlpha team and work can shed some light on this - but is the extensive use of the first person warranted here? There's an awful lot of "I" and "I've".

Is the work being done really so directly attributable to Stephen Wolfram or is there a army of hard working individuals behind the scenes not being referenced here? I'm not suggesting they list everyone by name or anything, but a simple shift to something like "our team" would seem more generous. Of course this is all moot if he is indeed primarily or almost solely responsible for the progress being referenced.