The comment was: “And many of our modern theocrats want to take us back to those bad old days.”
“our” implies the United States.
“modern” implies living today.
So who are the theocrats and which of the ones living in the USA today want to take us back to the Dark Ages?
No one has answered the question yet. I see no sources verifying the comment.
Besides, where in Islam is scientific inquiry prohibited? Seems to me that at one time, Islam was on the cutting edge of learning and scientific inquiry.
So tell me, which countries are it that are true theocracies?
Iran appears to be one. The Taliban in Afghanistan appear to be trying to establish one.
About the only "scientific research" i see there is research into how can steal or buy technology from other countries to make weapons.
By your standards of what constitutes an actual "theocracy", has there ever been one?