Why do people, especially Americans, talk and behave like they are less violent than Arabs or Muslims? Both liberals and republicans still do that, and it looks really bad, because the truth is, you're more likely to die in the USA than a place like Saudi Arabia, even if you are gay. It's so easy to prove it, I don't understand why are people still falling for Jeffrey Epstein Class propaganda that keeps us divided for nonsensical bullshit.
Can Saudi Arabia sentence someone to death for homosexual acts? Yes.
Do they routinely execute people just for being gay? No. It is not a routine occurrence. The death penalty is more often associated with cases involving additional charges, such as rape or other serious crimes. I am not excusing them, nor justifying them, I think the law and culture need to change, but doing it with bombs and bullets will never work, it makes it worse, actually.
You're more likely to die in the USA than Saudi Arabia if you compare their homicide rates:
- Saudi Arabia - 285 deaths in 2019; rate of 0.935, which means "0.935 people die per every 100,000 inhabitants."
- The USA - 19,796 deaths in 2023; rate of 5.76.
Just to give you an idea, the USA is closer to being like Mexico, Russia or Zimbabwe regarding violence. If you sort them by count, Mexico is top #4 while the USA is top #6 in the entire world. The jump in Count is massive, but still, both countries lose over 20,000+ people to homicides yearly. Compare it to other rich countries like China, Russia, India, Indonesia or the UK for the sake of comparison:
- Mexico - 32,252 deaths in 2023; rate of 24.859.
- China - 7,157 deaths in 2020; rate of 0.502.
- Russia - 11,327 deaths in 2021; rate of 6.765.
- India - 40,130 deaths in 2022; rate of 2.815.
- Indonesia - 847 deaths in 2022; rate of 0.304.
- UK (England & Wales) - 684 deaths in 2021; rate of 1.148.
If you wonder about the Middle East, here are some examples (and they've been heavily bombed/in war with the USA for decades):
- Lebanon - 128 deaths in 2020; rate of 2.245.
- Iran - 1,936 people in 2014; rate of 2.375.
- Iraq - 3,339 deaths in 2013; rate of 9.464.
- Iraq (Central Iraq) - 5,459 deaths in 2021; rate of 15.397.
- Iraq. (Kurdistan Region) - 111 deaths in 2013; rate of 2.246.
- Afghanistan - 1,613 deaths in 2021; rate of 4.032.
- Egypt - 1,360 deaths in 2017; rate of 1.312.
- Yemen - 1,703 deaths in 2013; rate of 5.810.
Btw, Zimbabwe has a rate of 6.75. Americans love to make fun of that place and all the others. They call them "shitholes," and the way they express themselves about them, is always filled with ire or rancor. Truth is, the USA killed millions of Arabs and Muslims throughout history in the name of "prudeness and morality," but the one who is actually the trashy, violent immoral piece of shit is the USA, not a single Middle Eastern or Asiatic country which are still growing culturally. Even Japan has the same issues a lot of racist assholes criticize the Middle East for, but they don't criticize Japan like that, because they're just fucking stupid and mentally ill. They don't have the capacity to see the hypocrisy and irony.
In summary, it looks really silly and bad whenever you see a post talking about a Middle East country, and then you see most, if not all the comments, most likely Americans and Europeans, saying how dangerous, how violent, how "retarded" or "barbaric" the country is while the fact is, the USA is much worse. This is the type of American Exceptionalism, Blue MAGA behavior that is still so ingrained and present in all Americans and Europeans, no matter if liberal or conservative. They all dehumanized Arabs and Muslims up to the point they automatically reject them no matter what.
If you still talk shit about the Middle East with superficial shit, like criticizing their issues with Child Abuse, something you don't criticize Japan with the same passion although both are equally significant problems you can't fix with bombs or bullets, you're an imbecile racist and also a terrorist, one worse than Hamas and Hezbollah combined. You're morally inferior and more abhorrent than those orphaned children seeking justice/vengeance for the parents your taxes killed with a bomb. You refuse to understand their anger because you are morally and emotionally too weak to handle such a heavy toll. You instead take the easy shortcut, which is to be a racist.
You can see cultures around the world like children who are still growing up. All of them had their phases, starting in caves, then tribes that participated in sacrifices and rituals, then became more civilized, participated in bloody wars, all of them still have issues regarding identity and tolerance... If you really think killing Arabs and Muslims, conquering them, erasing them all to replace them with Americans and "American values, culture, traditions" you're just an idiot. You're a violent child.