You ' re not only asking for equality under the law which you have very right to expect but you want everyone else to see your relationships in the same light as their own . CorrectIn other words you are asking that everyone be bisexual . Incorrect . You viewing your neighbours relationship as equal does not mean you want to sleep with your neighbour ' s wife does it ? Maybe it does . That argument wouldn ' t work on a sexual predator , I ' m merely making the assumption you are not . <| sep |> Some Arab nations are pretty wealthy , but not all of them , and even in the wealthy ones , that wealth often isn ' t distributed very evenly . Huge swaths of the Arab world are still relatively poor and don ' t have access to great education . In an environment like that , it ' s not really surprising that homophobia and other kinds of bigotry are the norm .