The treatment of women in other moslem nations can't hold a candle to what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan... African moslems, in contrast to Middle Eastern ones, for example, don't veil their women at all, and women work outside their homes, and have education, all of which the Taliban denies. The trick is that extremism can give even a central cause a bad name. There is nothing inherently worse about Islam than Christianity or Judaism in the basic attitude towards women. But the extremes to which the Taliban carries things is worse, in most people's opinion worldwide, apparently.