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The three mainstream religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) all are full of doctrine which preaches that women are MUCH lesser than men. Islam sticks to it. Christianity and Judaism choose to conveniently ignore much of it but there are still many, many, many families in the United States alone that practice a bit of what is written in their holy books. Perhaps they don't go so far as to stone their wives on their father's doorsteps if they find out on the wedding night that she is not a virgin (it's written right there in the book). But there are a number that teach their daughters to be subservient to men and their sons to expect such from women.
If anything, in terms of how women are treated, you could say that Islam simply follows their holy book to the word. Christianity and Judaism come up with excuses to pick and choose what to follow. But if they could get away with it, I'm sure the same would be done here. They stopped following all of the rules a long time ago and that gave women and men who disagreed a chance to voice their opinion and change things. When religious doctrine is the word of the land and there is no "well... let's not follow this rule for a bit and see how it goes"... Islam is what you get. Those three religions were all doing the exact same thing 1700+ years ago. Islam just stuck to it.
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