Muslims in the Philippines are frequently discriminated against in the media as scapegoats or warmongers. Immigrants are sometimes treated as scapegoats for economic problems by far-right extremists. The French were commonly blamed for discontent, as scapegoats for Imperial liberalism. Every time a coup was staged, scapegoats or excuses were found to justify it. Morocco's instability and divisions also fueled conflicts, for which Jews were frequent scapegoats. They read the same books, cite the same authorities, and blame the same scapegoats. He also tried to make his father's most unpopular officials scapegoats for the abuses. We've been made scapegoats, discriminated against. But Tacitus did suggest that Nero used the Christians as scapegoats. Nelkin suggested that postmodernist critics were "convenient scapegoats" who diverted attention from problems in science. In Lisbon in 1506, a months-long plague caused people to look for scapegoats. It has been suggested that Vestals were used as scapegoats in times of great crisis. Anti-Irish attitudes at the time encouraged making scapegoats of the O'Leary family. Three years later he wrote his influential apologia "Scapegoats of the Empire". The devastating defeat caused great commotion in the Spanish public opinion, who demanded scapegoats.