Unless culture and religion can keep up with the pace of ever changing society around the world, people from such background feel left out. Islam has not progressed or evolved much. And this is the reason why people from such religious background find left out or "odd one out" especially in western countries. Most of the bombers and rioters in London and Paris were british and french. They were mainly the second generation immigrants who have not successfully assimilated to the ways of life in host countries. Like Captain Haddock said, "assimilation is a two way street." With such strong and distinct religious beliefs in Islam, muslims find it hard to assimilate within host countries culture, and vice versa. This is the reason why youth in France are angry. These youths live in poverty with no discipline all their lives. While they benefit or are given opportunities to benefit from the socialist system in France, with free education, with lack of proper parenting and discipline, they fail miserably. The immigrants in France live mainly in ghettos. They beat up teachers and cops. I know this because my friend who teaches in the suburbs of Paris has told me her first hand experience. And they never come out of their miserable situation when they could very well get a good and free education to better themselves. Assimilation as I see even though is a two way street, should first and foremost be from the immigrants. If you don't even put in an effort to learn the language and familiarize yourself with the culture of your host country, you only live in anger, frustration, and hatred. If you fail to understand and respect your host country's culture, I believe you should go back to where you are from. Let's look at one incident in Netherlands. With an increase of arab immigrants in Netherlands, dutch find it despicable the way muslim treat their women. Hence, a dutch film maker makes a documentary about how women are treated in muslim community. This makes a muslim angry and kills the film maker. So it is obvious that the dutch now find it hard to accept muslims who have come to their country and have killed their countryman. This generates a lot of racism. Now look at other immigrants such as Indians and Chinese. They adapt very well within their host countries. Thus we see less problem arising from them. So it all comes down to one's perception and ability to see what is right and what is wrong within the boundary created by a different culture. It also depends upon one's flexibility. Almost like "survival of the fittest." Now jumping to a different point of abuse of women in Arab countries being less than in US, of course that makes sense. Women in Arab countries and not given any chance to speak up their mind, thus they have less chances of disappointing Arab men. Whereas in US, they can stand for themselves, and more rift is generated. It is almost like saying marriage and married couples are better and happy in Nepal than in western countries because we have less divorces. Well, in a society where women do not have equal rights and divorces are seen as sins and women as the main culprit, of course women are more likely to live miserably in married lives than happily single.