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Originally Posted by Electrequiem
There is a sizable number of academics/historians who allege that al-Ghazzali and his teachings are partly responsible for the demise of the flourishing scientific progress during the Golden Age of Islam. What are your thoughts on that?
Also, what socio-political agenda is Richard Dawkins promoting?
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That's utter, orientalist crap if you ask me. Ottoman and Mughal periods created the other "Golden Age" or Islamic Renaissance those guys never talk about.
One can always read Al-Ghazzali, and read legitimate Ghazzali scholars to discover Al-Ghazzali for themselves. Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad, a formidable Al-Ghazzali scholar, has most of his own Al-Ghazzali lectures on Youtube.
Both Dawkins and Yahiya have their respective sociopolitical agenda because they actively advocate public education policies based on their belief. I like what Jefferson, may GOD rest his soul in peace, had to say about the separation of religion and state. He said that only such separation can keep religion free of the corrupting influences of state and politics, and keep state and politics away from religious controversies. Very different from the European model where the religion of atheism under the guise of scientific reason must eradicate traditional religion.