Talk politics.

Except that the dictatorships in the region are run by atheist regimes or alternately *by* the minority religious populations themselves. Syria is a classic example of this, Saddam's poor man's Stalinism with its reliance on the Sunni Arab minority is another. The Muslims, as the majority of the population, as such have no reason to respect minorities when minorities have been repressing them. The clearest examples of the reverse are in Lebanon, where between the Shia and Sunni elements there the state came unglued (the PLO is and has always been secular so it doesn't qualify as a 'Muslim' aspect of this, Hezbollah and Hamas, OTOH, very much do qualify).

I'm not saying tyranny of the majority is good, and don't misunderstand this as meaning that, but reality in the region is something different than how it's usually put as being. And even Israel these days has religious fanatics who don't understand the concept of democracy and wield influence all out of proportion to their numbers.