Islam has never been known to be a liberal religion, Islamic states have always strictly enforce its practice and hold on its population. This is nothing new and should not be shocking.
What is shocking is that people believe that US and UK are countries supporting freedom and democracy worldwide, while actually supporting as ”strategic allies” the most ruthless, brutal and repressive tyrannies such Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and so forth, not to mention the ”Jewish state” of Israel.
Iran and Syria are quite democratic and liberal countries, but since they are on the way of Israeli interests, they become the targets of Israeli puppet states such as US and UK, not to mention the Gulf monarchies themselves, and are always depicted in a bad light by Western prostitute media such as Fox.
As to Islam not being a liberal religion, the same applies to Christianity and to the root and source of both, Judaism, all of them hell bent on destroying any religion not relying on their shared bloodthirsty ”god”. Therefore, Buddhism is among their main targets, not only of Iranian Muslims.
IMO, religion is actually one of the most powerful weapon of mass destruction to exist in this world to-date.
This applies to the Abrahamic ”religions”, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and that's why they were called ”barbaric” by the Kalachakra Tantra. This also applies to the evil, pseudo-Buddhist, Jewish-financed personality cult of dalaism.
However, this surely does not apply to Buddhism, which is free from the eight mundane concerns.