Another example of Hirsi Ali's and Manji's failure to attend to evidence that counters their point of view involves the oppression of Muslim women, a theme that features prominently in their work. They are eager to point out the lack of education and the exclusion from political power that many Muslim women experience, but they make little effort to point to evidence that would complicate this picture. High percentages of women in Iran and Egypt, for example, achieve a college education or greater. In the United States, Muslim women are more likely to have a college or graduate degree than the overall population of women, including Christians. In politics, women have broken the glass ceiling and have served as heads of state in countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

XREF: Counters the one-dimensional picture of Muslim women's oppression often found in public discourse and some feminist-atheist critiques.

Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 483