[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Not all Middle Easterners are Jew-hating, gun-toting, barbaric, mass-murdering, suicide belt-wearing, American flag burning wackjobs. Lumping all Arabs and Muslims into one group with one set of motivations and objectives is pretty silly.

Moreover, despite our propensity to think of the West as the source of all good, let's remember that many of the world's worst disasters came from the West (e.g., the Nazis, Stalinism, the Yugoslav genocides, European colonialism and the U.S. campaign to wipe out Native Americans and take their land). Those of you who know me will realize that I'm not a self-loathing, America-bashing nutjob, but I think there needs to be fewer stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims and less "the West is better than the East" type thinking.