Your favorite surahs

[Mudhammam]

Those countries may have vast differences but I'm doubtful as to how much that has to do with their "mentalities" as Muslim-majority nations; in regards to their bigoted views towards homosexuals and atheists (where one or both is tantamount to criminality in all those you listed), Islam as an irrational system of superstitious beliefs clearly inspires or directly condones such laws. And Saudi Arabia is one of the most oppressive, sexist, and barbaric nations in the world. It's also the historical center of Islam.

I would never argue that 1.7 billion people are equally responsible for the most heinous ideas and behaviors that Islam represents or promotes, and we can agree or disagree whether or not Sam Harris is too forgiving or trusting of U.S. foreign policy (I think he is), but it doesn't change the fact that part of being a Muslim requires you---to not simply accept some very bad doctrines---but to actively promote them. The extent to which reformers in the faith are able to secularize and moderate it is proportional to their ideological separation from the founder and its traditional ideals, just as a matter of history, and to the intimidation or dangers they face by the more conservative members of their religion, which arguably comprises the majority of Muslims.