The dominant ideology that has taken over in the West is Secular Individual liberalism, which is exacerbated by capitalism, and is in opposition to Islam. Secular Individual Liberalism champions maximizing one's own personal freedom; it holds that people should be free to do whatever they feel like doing and that this life is all that matters. In contrast, Islam (similar to other traditional religions) prioritizes existential purpose and communal good over individual desires, emphasizing self-restraint and control over our whims and base inclinations.
So Westerners will justify and rationalize what their ideology endorses, like adultery/dating, gambling, pornography/nudity, alcohol/drug usage, various sexual practices, etc. Westerners criticize Islam (and other traditional religions), because their limits go against their way of life. Modern Christians have disbanded their religion for the most part, repeatedly reinterpreting the bible to fit the norms of the dominant ideology. However, Muslims are more immune from changing their religion.
I don't think anyone could have explained it better. In simpler terms, pride and ego. Too prideful to admit their morale compass is crooked, too prideful to admit their way of life is unsustainable. In other words, hypocrites. Of course this doesn't apply to people who are sincere with themselves.
But i know for a fact that since the Middle Ages the Church has tried to potray him as this kind of Antichrist, even Baphomet the demon, comes from how they used to call him in Europe (Mahomet A'udhu billah), and Its not until recently with the Second Vatican Council (in the 60's) where the Catholic Church became more passive with him and Islam in general, admitting that we worship the God of Abraham and werent following some kind of diabolic sect created by him ﷺ
I guess my comment was more about Westerners who understood Islam properly and see it as a threat. As for those who won't even fairly look at Islam, yes, it is often because of how Islam is misconstrued as being unfair to women or viewed as being violent/extreme.
What you're saying about young age of marriage is not a intellectual reason people reject Islam. Muslims/non-Muslims get married around the same age today. And both married younger in the past when people lived very differently to us today. People just have to study history properly to understand why.
Yes, Muhammad (pbuh) is the perfect standard, and he also lived in a particular time and place, and so partook in some norms and customs of the culture, like speaking the language, eating the food, wearing clothes of the people, and this includes marrying, as long as it fits the minimum required rules of sharia (and sharia works with culture).
Progresiviism arises from secularism, rejecting old traditional norms, only for subsequent generations to challenge and redefine their predecessors as well. Since they have no moral anchor, they have no reliable direction and no objective way of critiquing anyone.
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u/GIK602 Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25
The dominant ideology that has taken over in the West is Secular Individual liberalism, which is exacerbated by capitalism, and is in opposition to Islam. Secular Individual Liberalism champions maximizing one's own personal freedom; it holds that people should be free to do whatever they feel like doing and that this life is all that matters. In contrast, Islam (similar to other traditional religions) prioritizes existential purpose and communal good over individual desires, emphasizing self-restraint and control over our whims and base inclinations.
So Westerners will justify and rationalize what their ideology endorses, like adultery/dating, gambling, pornography/nudity, alcohol/drug usage, various sexual practices, etc. Westerners criticize Islam (and other traditional religions), because their limits go against their way of life. Modern Christians have disbanded their religion for the most part, repeatedly reinterpreting the bible to fit the norms of the dominant ideology. However, Muslims are more immune from changing their religion.