Here's a website I think you'll like: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam(5 Aug 1990)

This is a case of fundamentalist political grandstanding at the expense of a woman's human dignity. I don't blame this on Islam, but rather on hypocritical politicians. America has its own brand of hypocrytical fundamentalist politics, so lets not be too self-righteous. 

This is what happens when you mix church and State.

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