Originally Posted by
csdf
You're trying to apply western logic to Middle Eastern thinking. In the West, something is either illegal, or it isn't. Here, something is illegal if somebody decides that is, and it isn't if they decide that it isn't.
"Western logic" is "Middle Eastern thinking".
In the US and UK too, there is police and prosecutorial discretion, whereby not everything that is illegal gets acted upon all of the time by law enforcement and/or prosecutors. And in the "West" too, who gets nailed and not by the law varies based on who you are.
