The image drew the immediate fury of Tehran’s religious conservatives. “No unrelated women can be touched unless she is drowning at sea or needs medical treatment," Hojat al-Islam Hossein Ibrahimi, a cleric at the Society of Militant Clergy
I don’t think they really do. I think this is played up in Western Media so that gullible Westerners, entirely ignorant of the world, will look at them as idiotic and hostile over little things.
“they” are not ideologically or theologically homogenous. however muslims sometimes treat women like cattle or worse. for example, in iraq you would see a bongo truck with the patriarch driving, the younger males in the passenger places, and the wife/mother in the back with two goats.