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Social conservative positions. The Middle East may hate gay people even more than your average backwoods Baptist, but most of their countries (and all of their theology) are distinctly left-wing economically. Free money from oil, demonization of the time value of money, etc.
That reminds me, with the exception of Israel, a lot of Middle Eastern countries were allied to the Soviet Union during the Cold War (although that did change after Israel & Egypt signed a peace treaty).
You also had Arab leaders like Muammar Gaddafi who tried to be their own Mao Zedong-lite by releasing The Green Book.
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