Criticism of the role of religion in gender oppression is surely necessary and appropriate if it is offered in a feminist context that doesn't claim any particular religion has monopoly of violence against women. Take a look at this feminist project called Sarah- Hagar in Germany: <http://www.sarah-hagar.de/projekt.html>. Its mission statement sounds like a promising way to approach the problem (though I don't know how that translates into its practice -- does anyone know?).
The dominant media -- as in the case of Peter Schneider's article -- tends to suggest that, when Muslim men commit violence against women, it is their religion or culture that's the problem, but ,when non- Muslim German men commit violence against women, it is just that the particular non-Muslim men are bad men, their badness having little or nothing to do with their religion or culture. That's the double standard that we ought to combat.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>