I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear.

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236. "Islam" doesn't.

Like Christianity, there are many varieties of Muslim culture. Those countries that have been on the receiving end of Western commercial or military imperialism tend to read their nationalistic values into their religion. They get defensive of what they consider basic Islamic (and therefore native and anti-imperialist) values and they hold onto those often recent norms as a hedge against cultural imperialism.

The Iranian revolution of '78/9 was a direct reaction to the 1953 overthrow of the parliamentary government by the CIA. Mohammed Reza Shah was an American puppet ruler who kept oil concessions available. Various political factions from secular and Islamic liberals to Islamic hard liners and even communists lined up behind Kohmeini whose anti-imperialist rhetoric was often expressed in religious terms. Most of them were pretty surprised by the hard-line theocracy that replaced the monarchy.

As far as gays, yeah, like the other Abrahamic religions, Islamic societies are pretty much anti-gay. That's unfortunate and I'm sure many suffer needlessly because of it.