We examined Christian Maronites (who hold beliefs akin to those of Roman Catholicism), Muslim Sunnis (the official religion of most Arab countries), and Muslim Shiites (the official religion of Iran and of Lebanon's Hizbullah movement), and found no evidence of lower inequality among Muslims or less discrimination against women among Christians. Were Islamic values as fateful as Huntington suggests, there should have been sharp differences in inequality and the treatment of women between these communities.
En ese estudio examinamos a los maronitas cristianos (cuyas creencias son similares a las del catolicismo romano), a los sunnitas musulmanes (la religión oficial de la mayoría de los países árabes) y a los shiítas musulmanes (la religión oficial de Irán y del movimiento Hizbullah del Líbano) y no encontramos evidencia de una menor desigualdad entre los musulmanes o de una menor discriminación de la mujer entre los cristianos.