Many Westerners, elites and otherwise, still hang on to the notion that folks all over the world want the same things. They don’t.
If the realities in various Muslim nations don’t disabuse people of that notion I guess nothing will.
Many Western liberals think that they understand other cultures because they’ve been indoctrinated in multi-culturalism.
The problem is that the various “victim-group studies” subjects (women, black, Native American, Hispanic, etc.) aren’t really about those groups and their cultures at all.
They are instead about the history of white male oppression of these groups. Those who study these subjects aren’t interested at all in the people or cultures in question, except insofar as they can be used for a club with which to beat their own society and feed their own self-esteem.