Losing one's job, while serious, is hardly equal to death. Other jobs exist, even in "this economy"
In the real world, people in other countries are regularly imprisoned, tortured, and killed for what they say (or even for what they are merely accused of having said).
I think your underestimating the number of peoples that go into finacial ruin, due to this kind of shit, and know it ain't the same thing at all, but if you ask alot of these people would you rather goto prison or be broke, due to something they said, and some would actually rather goto prison for a week end.
You guys are over estimating how often this happens in the middle east, some smart fuck might say it happens every other day somewhere in the middle east, when logically there are several thousand people fired every day because of shit they say.
I'm not saying what we got is worst, I'm just saying that them being a ten and us being a one don't make us perfect.