All thanks to "Abraham", it's descendants, and their infectious, back-assward, exploitative, "I'm Better than Everyone Else around me because my Beliefs are Written down in a Book" mentality havin' ass adherents.
Bingo! They want to limit the amount of darker skin people from coming to there country. This provides an easy way to do just that. Unfortunately for non-white, non-heterosexuals that means being stuck in hell hole countries where it is ok to assault, imprison, or murder someone for being gay.