In the end it is all about culture. There are healthy cultures and there are poisonous ones. Everybody fails under much pressure, but some cultures much much readily than others.<p>To quote other comment from HN, <i>I don&#x27;t want to live near islamists and my mother doesn&#x27;t want to be called a whore in arabic for not wearing hijab - yeah my mum speaks Arabic.</i><p>Power is often used as an argument to justify losing decency. This is unfortunate.