It always baffles me why we try and apply western principals to Arab countries (or asian or african for that matter)........they have different social rules to us.
In the case of Arabs, its always been that the big man is at the top with a f*****g great whip, beating any f****r who steps out of line and when he curls up his toes, the next bloke with the biggest whip takes over and so it carrys on...............
Its how things have always been and how things will always be..........it works for them so why poke our nose in?