With all due respect, by their fruits you shall know them. I stand by my characterization of Islam. If you choose not to see the imprisonment of the mind, body and soul that is Islam, so be it.
Yes, well, if Islam is and ever was only about imprisoning the mind, body and soul, let me give you the biographies of a couple of Muslim thinkers from Wikipedia (in short extracts):
"Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965–1039), was a Muslim polymath, anatomist, astronomer, engineer, mathematician, mechanician, ophthalmologist, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, and scientist, who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as astronomy, analytic geometry, infinitesimal and integral calculus, mechanics, motion, number theory, and visual perception, and pioneered the use of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: البصري), after his birthplace of Basra in Iraq (Mesopotamia), then part of the Buyid dynasty of Persia.[1]
Ibn al-Haytham is considered the father of optics for correctly explaining and proving the modern intromission theory of vision in his influential Book of Optics, and for his experiments on optics, including experiments on lenses, mirrors, refraction, reflection, and the dispersion of light into its constituent colours.[2] He also explained binocular vision, speculated on the finite speed, rectilinear propagation and electromagnetic aspects of light,[3] and argued that rays of light are streams of energy particles[4] travelling in straight lines.[5] Due to his empirical and experimental approach to science, he is also considered the pioneer of the modern scientific method,[6][7] and some have described him as the “first scientist” for this reason.[8]
Among his other achievements, Ibn al-Haytham described the pinhole camera and invented the camera obscura (a precursor to the modern camera),[9] discovered Fermat’s principle of least time and Newton’s first law of motion,[10] described the attraction between masses and was aware of the magnitude of acceleration due to gravity,[11] presented the earliest critique and reform of the Ptolemaic model, first stated Wilson’s theorem, formulated and solved Alhazen’s problem geometrically, developed and proved the earliest general formula for integral calculus using mathematical induction,[12] discussed the earliest theories on the psychology of visual perception,[13] and in his optical research, laid the foundations for the later development of telescopic astronomy,[14] as well as the microscope and the use of optical aids in Renaissance art.[15]"
"Ibn Sina (full name Abū ‘Alī al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā al-Balkhī; Persian: ابوعلى سينا/پورسينا), also known as Avicenna) was a Persian (Tājīk)[2][3][4] physician, astronomer, logician, mathematician, metaphysician, philosopher, physicist, scientist, and theologian. Avicenna was born around 980 (370 AH) in Afshana near Bukhara[5] in Khorasan a part of Persia (now part of Uzbekistan) and died in 1037 (428 AH) in Hamadan (Iran).[1]
He authored some 450 books on a wide range of subjects, many of which concentrated on philosophy and medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, which was for almost five centuries a standard medical text at many European universities. Avicenna’s medical system was that of Islamic medicine, which was influenced by the medical system of Galen, Aristotelian metaphysics, and traditional Persian and Arabian medicine. Avicenna is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics.[6]
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