Dr. Jirran, I hope your implied equivocation isn't meant to suggest approval of patriarchy in either religion - or indeed in any other guise. When Muslim lives and health depend on dogmatic teachings on gender, it's academic if Christianity is just as misogynistic as Islam. To those Muslims, it's the power of their own clerics who matter most. 

It isn't Christian or humane to ignore injustice committed against those of another religion.