You should ask your friend if he likes his women in headscarves ...whatever you call that thing...hijab?
Would he mind if his daughter, sister, mother were beaten for lack of obedience? Does he want his gay friends thrown off roofs? etc.
People better wake up - I’m not sure we’ll get another chance to stop it.
He doesn’t connect the two. He doesn’t think the lack of one leads to the spread of another. Think of Christopher Hitchens who didn’t get it either.