I lived and worked openly gay in Saudi Arabia and the UAE for 25 years.

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160. The only argument presented is that Saudi Arabi's culture isn't a cartoon

Which does seem to be the prevalent feeling around here, that saudi arabia - and basically everywhere else on the planet that has even a handful of Muslims - is a hellish desert waste inhabited by head-chopping homophobic woman-haters one and all. An outlandish caricature designed to dehumanize and thus justify abuses from us onto them, that justifies our support of tyrannical regimes to 'control," them, that justifies our perception of Muslims in our own communities as a dangerous and deadly "fifth column."

DouglasCarpenter related that this outlandish caricature isn't accurate, using his own experiences. And of course, experiences vary. But it is that variance itself that proves his point that it is not this cartoon so often depicted.

But rather than wrap your head around that, you lie and misrepresent what he is saying, you dismiss his experiences, and attack him personally.