What do you know. When you listen to actual Muslim women those Koran verses don't look that progressive and sophisticated when put in action, as some of the Muslim guys here would lead us to believe. In fact Muslim women even call whole Islamic religion misogynist because it brainwashes women to think they are inferior and that they should disavow all joys of life.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"