This is why I suspect that Pakistan under Christianity would be much the same, Old Testament having many of the same barbarian prescriptions. And also why I have some hope that Islam might yet achieve a moderation. However, for that to happen, either the current interpretation of the Koran's contradictions (Muhammad being without flaw, Allah obviously changed his mind; even G-d couldn't predict those darn Jews wouldn't convert!) so that the touchy-feel early Koran prevails over the evil, head-detaching, non-Muslim-killing, child-fucking later parts of the Koran, or the majority of Muslims have to ignore the bad parts. When and where Muslims can ignore the less evil parts of the Koran and Sharia in favor of modern Western (or far Eastern) mores, there is hope. I don't have a LOT of hope though, as that doesn't seem to be the way Islam is going.
You don't fucking say?
It's like teaching Orthodox Jews that women are actually worth as much as men...
Which should tell a lot of people that culture has more to do with it than the faith itself, hell there are Kurds and Indians who do shit you'd claim were Muslim traditions but it really isn't, it's fucking ancient culture mixed with religion to make it fit proper, kinda like how the winter solstice of ancient European religions became Christmas but in a way more fucked up manner...
I get it, i really do, i know where they are from and it doesn't matter if they are Samarians, Kurds, Muslims, Hindus or Orthodox Jews, they are equally fucked in the head because they share these cultural values that are FUCKED UP!
It's not even contained in that region, that culture exist all over Asia and Africa along with some Eastern European nations too, well actually everywhere since it's been spread with immigrants.
In the UK, those who do the honor killings and acid attacks against women are mostly Indians, second is Kurdish tribal religious immigrants, a distant third are Muslims who are Kurds.