Most of what you take for granted in the west is considered not only a dream elsewhere, but preposterous madness.

Most men in the middle east still think of women as private property that they should just try to appease by pandering to the circulating new narrative that they are equal to men that came from the west just to have their way and then they can do what they want behind closed doors. None of them actually believe in gender equality or even that they shouldn’t treat women worse than animals.

Still the problem is exacerbated by the fact that women over there enable such behavior because it is totally normal and moral according to the standards set by the one and only creator of the universe.

Some think women are just afraid to speak out and are just pretending to be okay with such abuse and regressive ways of life and oppression because they have no choice or they can’t say otherwise or else they would be in physical danger.

This is only in extreme cases like the Taliban, ISIS, …etc. I was referring to places and countries that are not taken over by terrorist organizations. I don’t blame women in territories under the control of absolute religious fundamentalists. This is totally not their fault. On the other hand countries that are considered secular or moderate, they fit the description I made earlier, where women are part of the problem due to being too deep in the religious indoctrination and brainwashing. Think women who call the hijab a symbol of empowerment for example. Who preach why women belong in the kitchen and should obey her husband no matter what even if they still have the opportunity for education in those so called moderate or secular majority Muslim countries.