In response to dr j last comments.
You have to consider there religion if you wish to understand why they feel it is ok to treat woman like this.
In Syria do the woman cover up everything bar there face and hands, are they taught to cover up and the men taught that women should cover up, if so are they also taught that it is also ok for woman to not cover up if they wish without it in any way reflecting poorly on them, there virtue or them not being good Muslims or indeed good in general.Would these men tolerate and treat with respect woman in Syria if the were seen walking out dressed as we commonly see women dressed when on a night out in the west.
And when these men find them self in a foreign country do you expect them to abandon the beliefs they are taught from birth with regards to how woman should act which is to guard their modesty and hide there ornaments
And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their khim?r over their breasts and not display their beauty except to their husband, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their (Muslim) women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. (Quran 24:31)