Islamic countries are the least tolerant of all, and none more so than Saudi Arabia. There, homosexual acts are punishable by a maximum penalty of death. According to Human Rights Watch, six men were executed in Saudi Arabia last July for sodomy. And in April nine men were sentenced to 2,600 lashes each for transvestism and “deviant sexual behavior.” The punishment was to be meted out at 15-day intervals over a two-year period. Why? Because that many lashes in a single session would have killed them.
