Prior to the rise of mullah-controlled Iran there was a “moderate” Islam forming. To see that it was so all you have to do is get on the Internet and Google pictures of the academic life and the class pictures of students at their colleges and universities.
You see coed pictures of students all dressed in 1970s youthful European standards. (yes bells!) The young women are very stylishly and somewhat modestly dressed. All looked like young people looking forward to life in a modern world. You can even find such pictures of life in 1970s Kabul. In fact Afghanistan was something of an “exotic” tourist spot. All that started to change after the Shah fell. You can look at the same institutional pictures and watch it change from “stylish” to women in laundry bags with eye slits. All very sad!
That was the secularizing of Islamic countries.
Islam is still the religion of conquest and slavery, murder and mayhem that it has been since Mad Mo made it so.
Mr. Peanut Jimmuh Cahteh helped.