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The area of the world around Israel is pretty awful actually. I'd guess that Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia are all worse than Israel: but they oppress their own citizens instead of fighting neighbours, so it doesn't get into the news so much.
It's true.
Saudia Arabia's constitution says literally, the Quaran is the Law. The Quaran is a document open to interpretation, and, just like in other religions such as Catholicism, there are... for lack of a better word, complete scumbags... that are willing to twist the words to take a meaning they want, or if that fails, just make stuff up.
Women's rights are some of the worst in the world in the middle east, and violent crime against women is rarely reported, even more rarely disciplined, and frequently the women who get raped are then penalized for having committed adulturey. See the case in Iran of the girl who was raped and then got stoned for it.
People who quote statistics saying that there's less violent crime and murder and rampage in the ME than there is in the US fail to take into account that the US keeps accurate statistics, whereas the ME nations don't because they don't care. Women to them are animals.
Except, of course, in Israel.
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That's nice. You found two unjustifiable violations. I guess compared to Syria and Iran, Israel truly is a nation of devils. Because of course in your little world, anyone who's anti-Israel has to be good.