Hypocrisy of Muslims and "Rednecks"

I once received an email about a situation that happened in Germany. Some Middle Eastern guys attacked Jewish passengers on a bus, shouting “Jews out.” The police came in and beat the crap out of these men, for which they got positive reviews from the writer of the email.

I bear a more than passing acquaintance with Russian Jewish expatriate community; and from what I've seen these people hate Muslims with a passion. They see them as arrogant, brutal and lazy scumbags. The Muslims keep claiming them to be immoral, but these people see Muslims as far more immoral. Specifically, they see the Muslims as jerks; and, given recent events, there is a lot to recommend that view.

Are all Muslims jerks? No, but neither are all Jews or Russians. There are however problems that run through all sorts of cultures, and that is the case both with the West and the Middle East.

One problem I've noticed with the more conservative cultures is that they claim to be moral while in fact acting in very immoral ways themselves. One example of that are the “redneck” auto mechanics. They constantly gouge their customers and rip them off if they think that they can get away with it. Then they claim that they are true moral hard-working Americans and that the liberals are destroying America and that they represent the true values of America.

I've noticed some very unethical practices in Muslim businesses just as much as there are among the “rednecks.” It is outrageous that these people get to claim that they are moral and that the rest of us are not. These cognitions need to be challenged on a wide scale and thus put an end to this hypocrisy and the wrong deeds that it allows under the banner of traditional values.