Criminals act from criminality, not from their religion

Evidence

All those who have objected to the implication that Madoff’s being a Jew had anything to do with his criminal behavior were correct. There are scores of unscrupulous investors in the United States and around the world, and corruption is an equal-opportunity employer. But why, then, cannot precisely the same logical argument be applied to “Muslim terrorists”? Did Madoff do what he did because he was a Jew or because he was a swindler? Obviously the latter. Then why cannot Mohammad Atta, Mullah Omar, and Osama bin Laden be seen for the psychopaths and sociopaths they are? — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 623

Categorization

• CANDY: The Madoff-vs-bin Laden double standard is a crisp, tweetable logical parallel: corruption is an equal-opportunity employer.
• XREF: connects to: Preemptive prosecution jails people for crimes never committed, based on presumed Muslim predisposition — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 572; Anti-conversion violence targets Catholics who do not actively proselytize. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 254

Related

• Terrorism is labeled by religion only when the perpetrators are Muslim. (similarity 0.79)