Recently, President Putin asserted that Western Christianity had lost its moral compass by supporting L.G.B.T. rights and that the Russian Orthodox Church was the true guardian of Christian values. And, he added, these values are also compatible with traditional Islamic values — an important message in a country where ethnic and religious tensions are on the rise. The signal from Sochi is that the West has no right to impose its alien conceptions of “human rights” on Russian Christians and Muslims, and that athletes and spectators should respect Russia’s laws and customs. To that end, they should also refrain from using the special protest zone near the Games to express their opposition to Russia’s laws.