@Moss@friend.camp anybody who has studied the history of feminism in the West knows that its successes are largely due to:

1. the political advantages offered in democratic societies to allowing a large number of women to vote (thus increasing the voter base), and

2. the political stresses during wartime when men have been unavailable to perform necessary labour on account of being overseas at war

the middle east is, by and large, a colonized region, not a colonizing one. it hasn't been given the opportunity to develop the same kinds of democratic structures (due to constant invasion) and hasn't had an equivalent of “sending all the men overseas for WWII”. so it's not surprising that feminism there hasn't played out the same way.

nothing to do with religion; it's frankly irrelevant to the conversation in light of these much bigger factors, most of which have been the result of offences by Christian nations

it's very nefarious to continually and perpetually act in ways which weaken the cause of feminism in the Middle East and then hold oneself up as the more feminist one