From my personal experience of Islam, there are huge problems with things like attitudes to women's rights, even amongst a lot of otherwise 'moderate' Muslims.
I think you mean there are women's rights issues with people who practice Islam, not Islam itself.
This is a very important distinction. If you're going to judge an ideology by billions of its followers actions, then that is basically saying the ideology encompasses anything and everything behaviorally. That's what makes it easy like in this discussion, to cherry pick facts.
"Look that guy did that and he is a muslim, therefor Islam = that"
Which is of course nonsense. George Bush and Bill Clinton murdered millions of people, and no one would say with a straight face that was the philosophy of Christ.
Islam as a
religion, gave women rights of property, divorce, etc when northern europe was still burning women as witches and keep them as chattel slavery.
The
cultural elevation of women in the west is only about 100 years old.
And if you compared a 16 year old Pakistani girl to a 16 year old American girl, I am not sure you could make the case that elevation has been very high.
I think a better way of approaching the entire topic, is that there are people who are culturally, and ethnically isolated, or who are (in the case of Europe) exploiting political opportunity (no welfare state = no Muslims moving to Europe) acting in a manner which alarms and bothers others.
If you want a culturally consistent environment, you want a private property society, similar to the anarchism I typically discuss.
If you want a multi-ethnic, left democratic state run society, then you will have to accept the overrun of other groups and races because the goal of the state is not to preserve culture, but to destroy it, the better that the state may rule.
America has similar "issues" with Hispanics.