If you wish to opine on the state of rights in Arab nations and countries, you should first recognize the material realities of the world in which they exist, the struggles which demand the vast majority of their daily energies and attention. Their can be no pro-equality movement while an occupying country bombs your neighborhood, steals your water, and limits the availability of food and medicine at will; no protections for the most vulnerable when all are stood naked before the same wall for execution.