Bishops say Islam ignores women's rights

I wouldn't say ignore, I would say islam has no women's rights. The Age

Catholic bishops attending a synod at the Vatican have said Islam does not respect internationally enshrined women's rights, the ANSA news agency reported, quoting a spokesman.

The criticism that Islamic tenets flout the principles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights came during a meeting of Spanish-speaking bishops at the three-week gathering, the report said.

The Catholic church, in its relations with Muslims, "should keep in mind their conception of marriage and the family, which does not accord women the rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", said the spokesman, Julian Carron, quoting from a summary of the discussion.

For this reason, the bishops called on the church to exercise "caution" in its efforts at rapprochement with Islam, Carron said.

This shouldn't be the only the reason. What about islam's commands to wage war upon non-believers, the systematic discrimination of non-muslims in a islamic land etc...