How different was the Middle East before the rise of Islam?

>>2422649
I don't think too different.
Generally religion doesn't change as much as people think.

Less landmines.

>>2422649
More than you'd hope; less than you'd think.

They had more gay sex.

>>2423014
More? Do you know than Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan must be the ones with more buttsex between males in the world? Not even kidding, kids in there are raped like it's nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMp2wm0VMUs
Also look for bacha boys or whatever is the term in the different countries.

>>2422649
The center of world civilization.

Funny what a cult/ideology can do to you, eugenically speaking, over a few centuries.

Better, for them and for humanity

>>2422735
Zoroastrianism
Nestorian Christian
Jews
Buddhism

No Islam.

>>2422649
Depend on which area. But they are always a hotspot for conflict even before rise of Muhammad. Especially Levant. Don't listen to those retard who claim they are peaceful before Islam. There was never peace in middle east. There is only war.

>>2422649

apparently it was a place so awesome they had to make a religious law ordering women to ''cover their beauties''

>>2422649
a realm of religious plurality, tolerance and diversity
then, Mohammad's murder boys came and fucked everything up because one camel driver thought about meshing up existing religions to create his own thing

>>2423062

Europe had pretty similar dress standards for women for quite a lot of its history.

>>2422649
Diverse. Lots of different religions and cultures. It wasn't all just one monolithic, boring bloc filled with Arabs and Arabised peoples with virtually the same shitty architecture and commieblocks everywhere.

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>>2423870
this is true in all western nations. gender equality has only progressed in the last 60-70 years or so.

>>2422649
It was actually pretty similar to the modern Middle East where there were two large major powers fueling ethno-religious proxy wars, with major religious strife and rioting as state sponsored religions corrode their rapidly declining religious minorities and heretics due to the political rise of organized priesthoods shutting down all syncretic and heterodox beliefs of centuries past.

The Middle East after the rise of Islam is pretty unique by comparison.

Them were whiter and based

>>2423032
Do you think this happens because of polygamy?
>minority of top males get the majority of the women
>the rest are left with the goats and each other's butts

>>2423971
It happens because of a misogynistic approach to gender in those specific cultures which are similar to Ancient Greece in a lot of ways where men and women are segregated from an early age, where male virtue and beauty are lionized.

>>2423033
You sound like an astronomy teacher I had

>>2423971
It happens because male and female don't interact that much, in other Muslim countries than aren't that tribal with women it doesn't happen that much. That's why Zoophilia, kid abuse and rape of non-muslims is more common, it's one of the few ways to get they urges fullfilled.

>>2422649

It was filled with infidels

Zoroastrian middle east was a bastion of civilization

Islam ruined everything

>>2423032
It's a liberal dream come true.

It was pretty shit, islam vastly improved the region