The point is not “Misogyny is Muslim countries now is okay, because Muslim women were once involved in higher education”, the point is “The appeal of some Islamic misogynists to a tradition of educational misogyny is extremely dubious even from a very early point in Muslim history.”
I mean that the appeal does not hold up even inside the philosophical framework of a ‘traditional’ Islamic society. Especially as the Quran does not forbid women’s education.
The point is not “Misogyny is Muslim countries now is okay, because Muslim women were once involved in higher education”, the point is “The appeal of some Islamic misogynists to a tradition of educational misogyny is extremely dubious even from a very early point in Muslim history.”
The appeal of Muslims to literally anything in the Quran is extremely dubious.
You don’t need to be Muslim to have a moral framework.
I mean that the appeal does not hold up even inside the philosophical framework of a ‘traditional’ Islamic society. Especially as the Quran does not forbid women’s education.