Michigan, Oct. 28 -- US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr faced backlash after claiming that modern Arab Muslims do not produce science and literature as they did in the past and do not win prestigious awards, according to The Washington Post.

Kennedy made the remarks on Monday (local time) while campaigning for Republican candidates in Michigan, including former congressman Mike Rogers, who is running for an open Senate seat. He blamed the 'Muslim Brotherhood', an Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928, for decline in "Islam's contributions to art and literature and science and engineering."

"The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood took over in 1928; that's why you don't see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims, winning the Nobel," Kenn...