“Playing nice” to bad people goes very deep in the culture - after I was robbed many years ago (a skinny white guy in the wrong section of town), I told the police I should have fought back instead of freezing up: The policeman told me fighting back is the wrong thing to do when robbed, that it’s better just to give them what they want. A big, beefy Hartford policeman said this!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus