As I've heard it, inequality and the mistreatment of women is in direct contradiction of Muslium teachings and the origins of the religion, when women were powerful forces in the church. Don't know much else about it.
   Cat Stevens, or Mr. Islam, or whatever, can keep his tunes, after his comments about Salmon Rushdie. Wild World always seemed to me to have a ridiculous tone of condescending menace, like the song of a jilted stalker. Figures.