I know the Chinese can sometimes show some pretty gory images; I don't know about the Middle East, but as L.T. Smash writes

Some people have criticized the decision to release photos of the late Uday and Qusay Hussein to the media. They complain that it is insensitive to Arab culture to display the dead in such a manner. (Have they ever seen al Jazeera?)

Most of the major media reports I found about the pics of the dead dictator's sons cited the same "Egyptian scholar" who told Al Jazeera television that displaying the bodies publicly violated Islamic law, but in the Nov. 18, 2001 issue of the New York Times Magazine, Fouad Ajami wrote

Al-Jazeera is not subtle television....Al-Jazeera loves grisly footage and is never shy about presenting graphic imagery.

And that's not the only evidence of grisly pics. Of course, there's a lot of hypocrisy here: back on March 23, 2003, Andrew Sullivan wrote of the pictures of dead Americans

The pictures on al Jazeera are Danny Pearl revisited. Cowardly, evil, depraved: and the fact that al Jazeera is broadcasting them shows exactly how unhinged the enemy has become.