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I think it promotes a terrible way of life and it's quite invasive into the lives of people who practice it as well as the ones who don't, but need to accommodate to it.

as several people have said, it needs to go through the enlightenment period. the muslim world needs to have their voltaires and nietzsches as well to help the societies become more independent of their religious culture.

there are a few reasons why that reformation will be harder to achieve, which is to say, there are specific differences between islam and other religions, like the fact that to convert to islam a person just needs to say they are muslim, but leaving islam might carry the death penalty.

so it's pretty much like a virus in a society, easy to get in, extremely hard to get out.

full disclosure, I'm an atheist who always lived in western societies.