Can we think?

Recently I read a book in Persian from an Iranian philosopher, Aramesh Doustdar who lives in Germany. The title is “Refusal of thinking in religious culture”. I hope the translation is quite right.

In brief it said that there is a fundamental difference between Islam and Christianity or Judaism in terms of Thinking. There were potentials in Iranian civilization to accept Islam. Islam without Iran could not spread like what it did. The Iranians although they think that they changed Islam, they lost their power of thinking. That’s why we don’t have any great Philosopher afterward. He gives lots of examples throw the Iranian poets and scientists and proves that they could not think (as Dekart) because even they are very smart but the limits of their religion did not let them go to the end. And …

And I look around … I see myself … and the others … he is right … can you point in our recent history any body like Jean Paul Sartr, Victor Hugo, Carl Poper or even Noam Chomsky, Fokoyama, or … nothing exist.