Violence against Women
Violence against women is much higher in the West than in the Muslim world.
Four million American women experience a serious assault every year.
More than three women are killed by their husbands and boyfriends every day—that is nearly 5,500 since 9/11.
It is also true that in the West, men still believe that they are superior to women, despite protests to the contrary. They still receive better pay for equal work—whether in the mailroom or the boardroom—and women are still treated as sexualized commodities whose power and influence flow directly from their appearance.
(Yvonne Ridley,