@Naofumi is not a Sanghi. He is a young sensible Muslim. We agree on most things.
The Golden Age of Islam sustained because of the intellectuals finding support from the rulers. And then came the Mongols.
The Medieval Christians who drove out the Muslims from Europe, instituted a reign of terror. They did acts of evil like burning alive cats because they thought cats were the intermediaries of the Devil. They were rewarded with plagues and general ignorance.
But some among these Christians looked through the works of Muslims and parallely by themselves to bring about the Renaissance. Christian Europe progressed.
And what became of the Muslims generally ? There were exceptional enlightened Muslim rulers like Tipu Sultan but some chief mullah of the Ottoman empire declared that the printing press is haram and that slowed down adoption propagation of scientific and technological advances through the Muslim world.
What of the Muslims now ? Despite more than four dozen Muslim-majority countries there is not a single Muslim space station ( like the ISS ), not a single computer microprocessor or operating system. Why ?
Because for most modern Muslims, being Muslim has become a blind attitude of prayer, ritual and dress-code.
