America’s Promotion of Gay Rights Triggers Backlash in Middle East
This is ‘not something that necessarily sits well with the Bible Belt in America, let alone the Koran belt in the Middle East,’ an analyst says.
A protester burns a LGBTQ rainbow flag as hundreds of followers of an influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader, Muqtada Sadr, stand outside the Swedish embassy at Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2023, in protest of the burning of a Koran in Sweden. AP/Ali Jabar
