Yet we aren’t any longer and they still are. What’s your point?
That’s not to equivocate bank account restrictions with being stoned for adultery. Or that we shouldn’t push for even moderate Islamic countries to adopt liberal policies towards women’s rights.
It’s just an interesting perspective on Western history that gets lost on the moral high ground.
>Polls find that young Muslims in the Middle East are about as liberal as young western Europeans were in the early 1960s.