i find it more than odd in the movie that the mooslum was “appalled” at the westerners on their habits when in real life, it should be the other way around
The “westerners” were pagan Norse, who had some remarkably appalling customs of their own. Notably including human sacrifice.
Westerner usually refers to members of western civilization, which the Norse weren’t, at the time. For 200+ years people all over western Europe, who were members of that civilization, prayed every day, “Lord, save us from the Northmen and their awful ships.”
Actually, in that period of history, there were places where urban Muslims were considerably more “civilized” than northern Europeans. Baths for instance.