Why do liberals support Islam?

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Common denominator: human..and that reality is more complex than “religion did it”

The historical norm within Muslim lands was that they were more tolerant of vices etc (they just weren’t central to society or viewed as liberation).

The recent aberration of a more intolerant version of Islam has multiple factors (puritanism, colonialism, anti-imperialism , instability etc)

Puritan reformists (Wahhabism, Iranian revolution) came about the same time modern states formed and could disseminate that version of Islam rather than the one practiced before.

The environment that selected for those versions of Islam is changing, so the religious expression is changing with it

Ironically the Saudi fuelled petro-dollars that heavily pushed a rigid Islamic strand (naturally having the most influence being the spiritual centre + oil money) is now reigning it in