It was an absolute outrage to claim that was done in the name of God. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has also twisted Islam into something ugly. It's an extremist interpretation. The way they treat women is a classic example. Nowhere in the Koran does it justify this sort of treatment.
People talk about modern society.
We have had the vote for women for what, less than 100 years. Women had the vote 1,400 years ago in Islam. Islam freed people from slavery and class and poverty and made them responsible for their own actions. What these people are doing is confuse their own culture with Islam. There's an awful lot of things that Muslims do that has nothing to do with Islam, just as Christians do things that are nothing to do with Christianity.