I believe Stringsinger raised a potentially relevant point recently in this thread re: the role of religion in the oppression of women worldwide. It is a point I agree with. As a woman, I find all patriarchal religions troubling, both at this time and in the past, both here in the West and abroad. I believe that they tend to do a huge disservice to women worldwide, whether it be the Catholic promotion of incessant childbearing upon African women or routine female clitorectomy as practiced in many Muslim countries. While there may be no direct relationship between religious indocrination and the crimes under discussion on this thread, I would suggest that religious intolerance of freely expressed feminine sexuality, and indeed the entire othering concept of a woman as a "slut" or "cheap whore" is one inherited from religious prejudice.

Does God Hate Women? Well, personally I think He does:
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/2041/full?page=1