You're way off base. You're applying western thinking and western ideas to a people who don't think the way we do.
Stopping you right there. There is nothing "western" about understanding that we are all made in God's image.
I'm talking about their souls, marshmallow, and not their culture or their (false) religion. I'm talking about the fact that the same God who created us, created them.
I don't think this conversation's going anywhere. You believe that people in the ME don't want to be free. You must also believe that women in the ME like being beaten for showing their ankles.
We are NEVER going to agree on this. Your bias against these people is too strong.
You'll get no argument from me there. But so what?
You need to remember one thing. Being God's creation does not mean we yearn for all that is good and righteous. We're fallen sons and daughters of Adam who are in constant need of God''s grace. We have free will. We can obscure the image of God by our own choices. That's why their longstanding religious culture makes your comments about them yearning for freedom mere pie-in-the-sky.
Furthermore, God made our souls for Him, not for democracy. There's nothing inherently Divine or salvific in the democratic process. Jesus does not imprint our souls with an innate love of pluralistic politics. Try not to confuse our eternal destiny and spiritual principles with American culture.
They're not the same.