This has nothing to do with Westerners bro, directly speaking. Some of the folk in these forum are caught between two worlds regarding their understanding of what is right and wrong morally speaking; the societal morals of the society they were raised in which has become relatively dominant globally due to historical Western imperial dominance (physical and ideological), and their own sociocultural/ religious background.
I don't think it has much to do with saving face but their own rejection of social practices they view as being 'paedophilic', 'misogynistic'. This would not be an issue if these practices were alien to their own socioreligious background but they encounter an ideological conundrum when the faith/ancestral society that they subscribe to is in contradiction with their bespoke value system hence why they lash out against you even though what you have spoken us the truth in this thread. Easier to shoot the messenger than challenge the message with reasoned debate.
I have noticed a similar trend in other controversial subjects such as concubinage. I was laughing inside at the mental gymnastics some folk were engaging in to rationalise religious concubinage to themselves; they were using words like 'consent', how will a captured woman whose tribe or nation has been defeated/enslaved be asked for consent by her enslaver during a sexual encounter?
By my own admission, I am not the most religious person out there but I ain't completely ignorant of the Deen hence why I accept it as it is. The delusion and confusion displayed by some folk stems from an inability to accept or find an accommodation between one's own moral compass and the Deen hence the attacks on you and others who quote Islamic facts that they find hard to digest. This type of cognitive dissonance can possibly lead to Kufr hence why folk like
@Abu Ash’ari adopt an 'apologist' stance regarding some matters.