And on a related note...

The BBC wonders :'How democratic is the Middle East?'
In this report, the BBC goes into quite a bit of detail (3 paragraphs per Arab country no less, and there's 22 of those already, plus one in the making if we run out of luck) to tell us what we already know (but at least they say and recognize it):

Only Israel is a democracy.

And a democratically elected leader who gets 88% of the votes doesn't count.
Read it all. If you wanna be sick of leaders elected by 95% landslides, kings who appoint and fire governments at will and dictators who forbid women to drive and show ANY part of their skin in public.

The Middle-East is a dark hellhole. And the whole world - to a lesser or greater degree - seems intent on snuffing out the only light that shines there.