People, you are missing the point

The more I read about this on the internet, the more it seems that there's this 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody seems to be able to see.  Or, if they can see it, nobody must say anything about it.  That 800 pound gorilla is morality.  What is it, anyway?

Evidently, the protesters against the video  have gotten everyone to believe that Western morality is decadent and Islam is the answer.  Right.  That's the point.  But what so many people aren't seeing is the contradiction in stated morality in Saudi Arabia and actual practice.  Western morality with respect to sexual practices, is probably not as bad as Saudi Arabia by the Saudis own standards.

If you segregate the sexes, homosexual behavior will increase.  That's what happens in prisons.  It is inevitable that it will happen anywhere where access to women is blocked.  This is fact.  I studied this several years ago when I looked into the phenomenon of prison rape.  The behavior gets rationalized this way:  the dominant male isn't gay, it is the submissive one who is.  This is rationalization that allows the perpetrator to feel that he is not doing anything wrong or unnatural.  When such men get out of prison, they go back to women.

Naturally, when you segregate the sexes the way the Saudis do, homosexuality will run rampant.  All the while, they will believe that they aren't doing anything wrong as long as you aren't on the receiving end!  But it is unlikely that they can live up to their own moral code.  They fail, then they rationalize.  The big point here is that they are the biggest hypocrites on the Earth.

How do I know this?  All I know is what I read about on the internet-- to turn a phrase.  It makes sense.

A quote seems appropriate --- "hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue".  Yep.