does not matter what you or i think because there are many Muslims out there who dont believe in wife-beating, sex discrimination, rape, pedophilia, slavery, animal cruelty, etc......Christianity over the centuries have had some pretty fucked up assholes twisting their tenets to the way they believed they should be too....definition of a religion....
"Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.".....sorry but Islam fits that definition and as such is considered a religion...