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The four part interview started quite warmly when Daniel started talking about his Biography, deteriorated quite fast when giggling host asked some good questions but of course Daniel is a master of deception, he is The Master Wizard, mixing fantasy with reality. For a minute I thought I really could like this guy, (His charm is contagious).

However like every other Charlatan He can't wait to show His true colors somewhere along the way. I know, I know...I sound harsh, my gripe toward this man is not because He believes in a Pipe Dream, created by Joseph. Like many of you, once I believed in Joseph's tales but Joseph is harmless compared to what DCP pimps for living; He loves quoting Islam in every occasion. This time He opened His mouth on Al Ghazali, DCP was talking so lovingly about this man. He Loves this Man. Let me give you an example; How many of you would you like to read Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf"?

A month ago I was listening Neil deGrassi Tyson in Vegas; "Can you guess, why Islamic World sank so deep into such a barbaric abyss, can you? It is because they subjugated women into slavery, plain & simple and one of the pioneers of heralding this age was Al Ghazali"
Let me quote Ghazali to you, see if you will see much difference than Adolf Hitler's rants about the Jews

The great theologian then warns all men to be careful of women for their "guile is immense and their mischief is noxious; they are immoral and mean spirited".

Like a true Muslim cleric Ghazali states "It is a fact that all the trials, misfortunes and woes which befall men come from women". [3.2]

In his Book of Counsel for Kings, Ghazali sums up all that a woman has to endure because of Eve's misbehavior in the Garden of Eden:

"When Eve ate fruit which He had forbidden to her from the tree in Paradise, the Lord, be He praised, cursed women with eighteen punishments:

-menstruation;

- childbirth;

- separation from mother and father and marriage to a stranger;

- pregnancy;

- not having control over her own person;

- a lesser share in inheritance; (one half of the male as per the Quran)

- her liability to be divorced and inability to divorce;

- its being lawful for men to have four wives, but for a woman to have only one husband;

- the fact that she must stay secluded in the house;

- the fact that she must keep her head covered inside the house;

- the fact that two women's testimony has to be set against the testimony of one man;

- the fact that she must not go out of the house unless accompanied by a near relative;

- the fact that men take part in Friday and feast day prayers and funerals while women do not;

- disqualification for ruler ship and judgeship;

- the fact that merit has one thousand components, only one of which is attributable to women, while 999 are attributable to men;

- the fact that if women are profligate they will be given twice as much torment as the rest of the community at the Resurrection Day;

- the fact that if their husbands die they must observe a waiting period of four months and ten days before remarrying;
This is DCP for you.
http://www.chowk.com/Views/Education/Ghazali-On-Women-In-Islam

For a more balanced view of al-Ghazali, see

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-ghazali/

Note, too, the 1997 and 1998 entries in the article's bibliography of primary texts. I edited and published these. If solomarinated wants to describe that sort of effort as "pimping," it's certainly his prerogative to do so.

Al Ghazali is awesome. I've learned more from his Spiritual autobiography alone than most other books I've read.

MrStakhanovite wrote:Al Ghazali is awesome. I've learned more from his Spiritual autobiography alone than most other books I've read.

It's a wonderful book. I've repeatedly assigned it in classes.

Daniel Peterson wrote:

MrStakhanovite wrote:Al Ghazali is awesome. I've learned more from his Spiritual autobiography alone than most other books I've read.

It's a wonderful book. I've repeatedly assigned it in classes.

Al Ghazali pushed Islam almost single handedly into dark ages. Before him Islam was flourishing, translating all kinds of western works, mainly Greek. After Ghazali's Influence Islamic culture never recovered, Islam subjugated women, demeaned, denigrated.
Ask yourselves, why do you think they didn't make any progress, contribute into science?
It doesn't take genius to discover why.

solomarineris wrote:
Al Ghazali pushed Islam almost single handedly into dark ages. Before him Islam was flourishing, translating all kinds of western works, mainly Greek. After Ghazali's Influence Islamic culture never recovered, Islam subjugated women, demeaned, denigrated.
Ask yourselves, why do you think they didn't make any progress, contribute into science?
It doesn't take genius to discover why.

Emphasis mine.

No, he did not.

Edited to add: Islam's Golden Age came to an end for a host of reasons, none of which was al-Ghazzālī's doing.