[Udo]

UAE wealth and influence comes from oil, there is no fudging around that fact. And they do live in the 12th century in some respects, they're just doing it within the comfort of their 21st century homes, with their 21st century cars, weapons, and infrastructure. The UAE is a dictatorship with strong extremist religious convictions and a medieval social values system that can only be described as appalling.

These things don't go away simply because they're our "allies" or because criticizing extremist religious practices is frowned upon in the West.