Interior Min. should learn from himself: Don’t punish community for group of extremists

The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai has warned against punishing the entire Orthodox community for the behavior of a small group of extremists:

“Everyone knows that we are talking about a small group within haredi society, but there is incitement against all of the haredim,” Yishai stated in an Army Radio interview.

So the Interior Minister’s message is not to punish and discriminate against an entire society for the conduct of small extremist groups? To be humble and understanding and moderate? What an interesting concept (cough, Palestinians, cough)!

But in this case, after reading Larry’s report about police complicity with religious violence, I’m not so sure Yishai has the right to claim this is not an endemic problem.