Does anybody happen to know the population in these Islamic countries, and if there are more men than women? A lot of the time these large inaccuracies of logic in regard to how to treat the opposite sex are (if not formed out of) solidified by a gender NUMBERS inequality. To support my argument, the women's movement in the U.S. took place after WWII, when the amount of men was down because we'd just been through a war, and the Spartans (yes those guys from the movie 300, only not.) women had a great amount of rights for their time, because as babies women are healthier, so there were more women then men. It's a question of dyadic and structural power, and it repeats throughout history.

I'm not saying what happened is right (I think it's sick), but just offering up an idea. Also, I hope that people see the ideals that these people hold as wrong, and not necessarily the person. Too often they become intermixed, and that's when there's crusades to clean up the 'dirt of the earth' type of stuff.