[Banana699]

>If one’s worldview disagrees, then theirs is simply incorrect on this matter

Anti gay muslims in the UAE (and beyond) have the same exact attitude, so that reduces the whole problem to who has the bigger money\stick\media horn, and they happen to be the ones who have on their territory.

[MomoXenosaga]

They really don't. I always like to remind people it was an American expedition that discovered oil in Saudi Arabia.

All empires collapse eventually but for now the West is still muddling on through.

[Banana699]

Are you implying that the US or the EU can simply threaten the gulf states militarily to make them tolerate LGBT rights? Why do you think it has never happened till now? From 1973 when the gulf states withheld oil and sent the west into a mini dark age till the murder of a US journalist in a foreign country? You realize that the majority of 9/11 perpetrators were Saudi nationals? Your hypotheses seems flawed.