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that will never happen in any muslim country at all

Except for: 1. Jordan (Decriminalised) 2. Turkey (Legal) 3. Lebanon (Allowable) 4. Oman (Illegal but tolerated) 5. Bahrain (Legal) 6. Iraq North (Kurdistan) 7. Palestine

Capital punishment is "only" carried out in: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Sudan, and northern Nigeria.

It's often better to not make assumptions, or quietly inform yourself first on subjects that you're not familiar with.

Homosexuality is legal in Bahrain and Turkey? wow you just came up with something completely untrue and misleading. Regardless what you categorize as Allowable? what does it mean? Do something in secret behind the government eyes!

Way to make broad generalizations. Homosexuality is not illegal in Jordan or Bahrain, and socially tolerated in many other places.

Those countries are constitutional monarchies. Saudi Arabia is an Islamic monarchy. Very unlikely that an Islamic state will ever condone homosexuality.

Not even sex without marriage in all arab-islamic countries.

When do we stop tying religion to geography?

Probably when geographic boundaries no longer determine whether one will be subjected to religious law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_Saudi_Arabia

Probably the better question is when we stop tying it to politics. These two can be either related or not. But some countries are practically single-religion based, so it's fair to describe them in that context.

It's fair indeed. For now. What I'd like to know is how we can get the situation to evolve.

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