Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

Do I have to take a stance here? I feel like I do. So, if I have to, I will look at this as a woman. Where is the one place in the Middle East I as a Western woman would have the same rights as a man? The answer to that is the side I will land on. I guess that also makes me anti-Muslim.

But, as a woman, it's impossible for me to live with the cognitive dissonance of NOT being anti-Muslim considering my rights as a woman -- or a homesexual -- would not be commensurate with a Muslim man's no matter how, "But, y'all, I'm on YOUR side", I was.