To me a big question has always been why people put up with being enslaved by Islam, whose ultimate beneficiaries are, as the author of this excellent article points out, its clergy, who get to do whatever they want. But Islam (through sharia) is a very all-encompassing system, and somebody born into it is like a citizen of the USSR in the old days - simply brainwashed and too full of inertia to even question it. Those whose cultures are taken over by are afraid of it, because again, as the author points out, it is the religion of viciousness and violence, and those who are converts are probably just plain nuts, people who have severe emotional problems that they are expressing by joining themselves to this hate-filled, violent cult that validates their own personal disturbance.
A European friend sent me a few books on the subject. Two which I would recommend about the status of Islamic and Arab women especially are “Now They Call Me Infidel” and “Cruel and Usual Punishment,” both by Noni Darwish, a woman born into the Egyptian elite who has moved to America and converted to Christianity. She pulls no punches about the straightjacket that Islam puts its people into.