... have failed in bringing about a society that regards men and women as equals. In Britain, a recent study showed that women are being paid less for work of the same value as men. Employers are more likely to employ a male, rather than a female applicant with the same qualifications, and there is a minor female representation in the British parliament in comparison with men. In the United States, a woman has never reached the presidency position, whilst in the 1990s women ruled over 300 million Muslims. These women were: Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh, a country that is currently being ruled by another woman, Shekha Hassena, Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and Tansu Ciller of Turkey. The overall occidental approach to Islam has been one of hostility towards a religion that denies the Christian trinity and questions the authority of the bible over the Quran. The crusades {11th-13th centuries} did nothing but ...

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