... there would *seem* to be a correlation between the popularity of Islam and the unpopularity of sexual non-conformity.

I'm not exactly sure where we go with that info, however.

Depressing, but not surprising.

Illegal just for being gay.

To say you are allowed to be a thing, whether that thing is LGBT, or Jewish or Muslim, or of a different ethnicity or nationality as long as you never appear to be a member of that group in public is the same thing as not allowing you to be that thing.

Gaza.

Imagine that, your society wants to throw you in prison because you formed a meaningful bond with another human being who cares about you. You're expected to live a lonely sexless life or go to jail.

A lot of people are comfortable with gay rights, up until the point it shatters their illusions that the big bad west is always at fault for everything in the world and that the third world is nothing but helpless victims. There are jerks from all corners of the world.

against any group of people

But we should be shaming nations that engage in these kinds of behaviors. That is what the OP did, not call for military action.