My uncle was all over the middle east in the 60's. I remember when I was a kid he said that the Arabs were "all crazy, all liars and all queers." And that someday "we would regret doing business with them". He also talked about how they had to pray 5 times a day, could only wipe their a$$es a certain way, etc.
Lying is part of Islam.
Odd you said that. My late father had not a lick of prejudice in his bones. I grew up not having any fear of any color or ethnic group. I am thankful for this, because I also don't favor any group, even my own, Shanty Irish. However my Dad hated Arabs. A-rabs he called them even when corrected. I never knew why, he didn't say as he died when I was 17. However I am now beginning to get his drift.