Arabia hasn’t been closely involved for a long time. Actually, I don’t know if it ever was or the Mughals were an intermediary, off the top of my head. It’s far away from the Middle East.

Religious conservatives gonna religious conservative. If you go back to ancient history sometimes they were fine with homosexuality or even expected some amount of it, but that died out along the way. Because of the European empires, but only because they were more successful than other regions, so I wouldn’t blame Europe either.