Sharia, huh?
Let he who is without goat cast the first stone.
Would the Imams be amending and ramping up Sharia laws and punishment for homosexual acts if they didn’t have convincing evidence of the problem being endemic in their country? I doubt it. LGBTQ may be a much nastier problem for them, than it is for us in the West. It may be causing significant public health issues. Their populations are to say the least hygienically challenged considering the still widespread practice of hand-wiping their nether orifices. Seventh century minds and all that.