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If you still believe Islam is barbaric and that a Secular society best protects the interests and rights of the people then you need to do some reflecting on our current society and how much freedom do we really have (and what does freedoms are really given).
I encourage everyone to start reading books on history outside of the dominant Western framework. Here is a great overview of how Secularism is the not clean and unbiased system we have told it is.
Flagrant social and economic disparities, working conditions beyond appalling, and monarchical rule barely emerged from the age of absolutism all gave rise to mob violence and unruly urban populations, which in turn induced the state to introduce an organized and well-staffed police apparatus that not only maintained a presence in these urban areas but extended its sway into the countryside, which had formerly been beneath the radar of rulers. By the later part of the nineteenth century, no village, town, or city could escape the watchful eye of this apparatus. And to reinforce the policing apparatus, an unprecedented, colossal prison system was created. But crude physical force was not enough, and this the European rulers understood. The population had to be educated in the ways of good conduct, and good conduct meant social order and, in a thoroughly capitalist system, an ability to work and produce. Discipline thus translated into a site in which the subject was corralled into a system of order and instrumental utility. The system that was adopted to accomplish this regulative mechanism was the school, which began to spring up everywhere in various forms, and concurrent with the consolidation of the police apparatus, the school became a standard social fixture by the end of the nineteenth century. Legislated as mandatory (literally coercing parents to send their children to schools on pain of imprisonment), primary education forced the great majority of Europe’s children into a regimented system where certain ideas and ideals were drilled into their minds. The days of learning within the family or church were gone forever. Still, policing and schooling were not enough: poverty in the wake of the Industrial Revolution intensified, and social discontent became ever more evident. Vividly remembering the French Revolution and its causes of discontent, reformers, politicians, and rulers quickly realized that poverty could lead to another revolution, one that might snatch both political power and economic privilege from under their feet. Quickly enough, state welfare systems began to be established in all of the European countries, creating a social safety net and, even more importantly, public health institutions and specialized hospitals. [12] [13]
Hallaq, Wael. “The Impossible State.” Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament, 2012
This paragraph doesn't support your claim that Islamic rule is superior than secular rule or even that it's on par with secular rule.
Welfare states were established because poverty could lead to revolution? Ok? So I'm supposed to be mad social services etc exist because of that origin story? Because parents were forced to send their kids to school I'm supposed to be mad that I'm educated? And what's that got to do with Islamic rule being superior?
Prisons? Schools? Police? Welfare state? Oh, these don't exist in Islamic countries, they're just an evil of secular states I guess.
Cope harder, the more educated people are becoming the more open they are to Islam. Its not a suprise an intellectual such as Nietzche held Islam in high regards compared to the ignorant majority who has only known about Islam from what they hear from the news and detractors who will any deception and lies such Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro.
Oh wow, smart men like Nietzsche liked Islam and idiots like Shapiro don't? On the other hand, Voltaire disliked Islam and I can easily find stupid an unintelligent and/or dishonest Muslim somewhere. None of that proves anything about the legitimacy of Islam or the strengths and weaknesses of Islam or of Islam-inspired behaviour.
You underestimate how quickly Christian societies have changed, with regards to women. In the 1700s women had very little freedom in Europe, including property rights or freedom of movement. Even in the 1900s women had to just put up with domestic violence, if it occurred and spousal rape only became illegal in the late 1900s. Women didn't have the right to their own bank account or to get loans without male permission until the 1960s-1970s in the UK or US (much earlier in France - 1880s - so a lot of variability. Likewise, you'll find a lot of variability between Muslim populations or even within Muslim countries. Malaysia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Turkey all have different situations, just like USA, Germany, Uganda, Brazil and Georgia do...even greater variability if you include Christian and Muslim minorities around the world).The problem is Muslims are where Christians were about 500 years ago as far as progression.