So I came across a post on the "Ex-Muslim" subreddit regarding the rights of women in pre-Islamic Arabia. There are some crazy parallels to modern Western society.

Source: http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/index.php?page=showfatwa&Option=FatwaId&Id=195983

Here's the excerpt:

The mother of the believers 'Aa’ishah may Allaah be pleased with her clarified this matter in the Hadeeth reported by Al-Bukhari on the authority of 'Urwah ibn Az-Zubayr may Allaah be pleased with him that Aa’ishah may Allaah be pleased with her (the wife of the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention )) informed him that there were four types of marriage during Jaahiliyyah (pre-Islamic period of Ignorance) was of four kinds:

1- One type was similar to that of the present day, i.e. a man asks the hand of a woman from her guardian or her father, and he gives Mahr (dowry) to her and then he marries her.

2- The second type was that a man would say to his wife after she had become clean from her period. "Send for so-and-so and have sexual intercourse with him." Her husband would then keep away from her and would never have sexual intercourse with her till she got pregnant from the other man with whom she had sexual intercourse. When her pregnancy became evident, he husband would have sexual intercourse with her if he wished. Her husband did so (i.e. let his wife have sexual intercourse with some other man) so that he might have a child of noble breed. Such marriage was called as Al-Istibdaa'.

3- Another type of marriage was that a group of less than ten men would assemble and enter upon a woman, and all of them would have sexual relation with her. If she became pregnant and delivered a child and some days had passed after delivery, she would send for all of them and none of them would refuse to come, and when they all gathered before her, she would say to them, "You (all) know what you have done, and now I have given birth to a child. So, it is your child O so-and-so!" naming whoever she liked, and her child would be attributed to him and he could not deny him.

4- The fourth type of marriage was that many people would enter upon a woman and she would never refuse anyone who came to her. Those were the prostitutes who used to fix banners at their doors as a sign [that they are prostitutes], and he who would wish, could have sexual intercourse with them. If anyone of them got pregnant and delivered a child, then all those men would be gathered for her and they would call the Qaa'if (some person skilled in recognizing the likeness of a child to his father) to them and would let the child be attributed to the man (whom they recognized as his father) and she would let him adhere to him and be called his son. The man would not refuse all that.

My take on this Marriage Type 1 - that's just like what Europe used to be a few hundred years ago....ask the girl's dad for her hand in marriage. It's still carried out in parts of the "Muslim world".

Marriage Type 2 - WTF? A man knowingly asks his wife to get knocked up by Chad and then adopts the son. Cuckholding anyone?

Marriage Type 3 and Type 4 - Woman rides the CC, gets pregnant, decides who the "father" is and the "lucky guy" is unable to refuse responsibility for the child. Sounds a lot like a combo of paternity fraud and many of the the welfare programs that redistribute wealth.

Assuming that website is accurate, the totalitarian system of Islam arose in a society that has similarities to our own. It stands to reason that either Islam or a similarly brutal and violent and genuinely misogynistic ideology will arise in our society (I've heard parts of Europe have already fallen).

Personally I don't want society to burn while I'm still alive. I enjoy having an electric grid, sewage disposal system, air-conditioning, internet, modern healthcare, etc. Just a warning, when the pendulum swings back the other way, let's not allow it to swing too far because we know the potential results.