I also brought up the treatment of women and gender roles, which is obviously a bigger issue with me because terrorism happens, Islam or not. I'm mostly speaking from the western mindset here as I have never been to the middle east. Over here, women are allowed to be given equal treatment and critique things just as much as men. Yet somehow muslims -- once again, over here -- advertise Islam as a religion for women, to kinda go along with the feminist movement, but you don't see one single woman in mosques, many wives of the muslim men at all the mosques I attended didn't even have jobs - it was if their sole purpose was to raise children - and when interacting with a female muslim it was seen something you just shouldn't do.
Irshad Manji makes a book critiquing Islam of many of its modern faults, proposing ideas of Islam Reform, and the collective whole of the western muslim community calls her a heathen despite professing to being of the muslim faith. In western Christianity it's often seen as a good thing to question and critique your fellow Christian. In islam, even in WESTERN Islam, it's seen as taboo to even remotely criticize the status quo, but damage control? A-okay! Which is the intellectual dishonesty I was speaking of, ESPECIALLY if the person criticizing is a woman.
Another issue I have with western Islam is the idea that the entirety of the Qur'an presents scientific knowledge on things that occurred 1600 years ago. Though that's not exclusive to Islam.
