It's amazing that you can live in Thailand with so many openly gay people here. You must find it hard to do anything without running into one. The Phils on the other hand is the best place for people who have problems with gays, I mean these people imagining things.
As for Muslims making their women wear Burkas, I'm sure that plenty of Christians would force their women to be more submissive given the chance. The problem is that people won't aren't nuts are in a greater number than the nutter Christians.