Re: Islam promoting thought and false accusations: Att. Ummm
Peace ummm
Not only does Islam promte thinking on the level of rationale. But it goes beyond that and promotes a full learning experience. A non-Muslim named Bloom had developed a Taxonomy on the learning types.
Cognitive (Knowledge), Affective(Attitude) and Psychomotor(Skills)
Islam promotes the thinking processes by ordering the seeking of knowledge.
http://www.whyislam.org/aa/adha01/index.asp?article_id=2
The seeking of knowledge is what pertains to the cognitive processes. These are exposure, understanding, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in increasing complexity. The exposure aspect is the prophetic instruction of us to keep company with good people. The understanding aspects are covered by how the Qur’an tries to reason with us and states, that such and such is for men of understanding
http://www.harunyahya.com/basicconceptstext_men.php
In addition to this Islam promotes all forms of learning not just the cognitive ones. It promotes good attitude and development of skills. That can be expanded on later inshaAllah.