You should study up on religion and Christianity, we banned plenty of their bullshit practices. The reason Christianity is mostly mild and meek now is because we've had to push it back into a corner. It had to get rid of most of its archaic customs to survive.

This is a highly reductive and a backwards way to view the cause and effect of history.

Who is "we", what era are you talking about, what archaic customs are you talking about? You are speaking about vague generalities and then making claims based on them.

Human progress does not advance because individual governments ban certain types of behavior. It's a byproduct of changes in economics, and government systems. The attitudes and behavior of the church towards its populations was more influenced by technological changes and environment than any sort of government asserting its control.

Islam needs to be beaten just the same way. Making women second class citizens and forcing them to wear beekeeper suits while the man gets to run around in shorts and flip flops is demeaning and unacceptable.

No one is claiming that religion isnt problematic, were just saying that banning iconography or ideologies isn't going to be effective at doing anything but stiring up sectarian violence.