Treating women as second class citizens is hardly a Muslim invention. English commmon law treated women like property. And Switzerland — hardly a hotbed of Islam — didn’t allow women to vote until 1971! And women aren’t treated as equals in the Catholic Church, and many other mainstream Christian churches. Countries where Islam is the official government-endorsed religion are really theocracies, and tend to have legal structures that embody and perpetuate a conservative brand of Islam. Not all Muslims — even in those countries — actually subscribe to those beliefs, any more than all Christians believe women must be “obedient” to their husbands..
Reminder: Obama is running for President of the United States today.