That's all there was in the Dubai ports hysteria as well. Arabs who ratted out any number of terrorists and service our ships were told we simply couldn't trust them to manage port terminals, even though Saudis are managing port terminals on the East Coast and they don't have near the same commitment to the WOT as the UAE does.
It's xenophobia, plain and simple.
Would've worked for me and about 280 million other Americans on September 10, 2001.