"For example, the raging homosexual underground that's been related by several long-term Middle East expats"
I too have heard this from me expats; now, where is some documentation?
Here is an article by the author of Sword of the Prophet that is not documentation but is very enlightening and should lead to documentation...
Serge Trifkovic FrontPageMagazine.com | January 24, 2003
I wouldn't have the faintest idea, although David Pryce-Jones in "The Closed Circle: An Interpretation Of The Arabs" addresses the question briefly and references others who've done so extensively.
If you think about the way that Islam dictates every iota of human behavior and habitually denigrates women, it kind of makes sense.