This is uncivil? How? Someone disagrees with facts.

Your examples are NOT similar. The intent, the circumstances, and therefore the consequences are very different, because the baseline is very different.

Women have been active socially and religiously from day one in western/Christian society, had an important role in its inception, participating in religious services next to men, instituting and leading religious orders themselves, mixing with men at country fairs and dances and church socials, balls and banquets and court life, organizing dinner parties and salons, etc. It wasn't a stretch to go from this baseline to modern feminism.

Meanwhile, in Muslim countries, women were hidden in back rooms and behind veils and partitions, observers but not participants. That makes it the baseline of "normal" fundamentalists want to return to, against "westernisation".

Muslim columnists should acknowledge the elephant in the room, not pretend they don't see it, then bemoan "stereotypes".