The problem there is not the US government. The problem there is religion - a specific religion to be extact. Once we start actually holding islam to the standard of modernity we may make progress here, but as long as we shy away from criticizing and shaming the religion publicly - it will keep doing this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#Islamic_countries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Declaration_of_Human...</a><p>Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is the chair of the meeting that is supposed to oversee implementation of the treaty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council#Saudi_Arabia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...</a><p>The guy that Saudi Arabia elected for this role has been convicted - multiple times - for abusing and locking up &quot;personal assistants&quot;.<p>The problem here is not the US supporting Saudi Arabia. We need to shame islam and take it kicking and screaming into the 20th century. Half of the quran needs to be declared to be toilet paper and nothing more, and then we can talk.