But after your posting on what happened with your daughter at her school and your comments on that thread, a reasonable reader could conclude you are a pretty imposing presence.
So, I was just ascertaining if there was indeed some sort of tolerance in the scenario when you passed through Saudi Arabia, or if they were thinking, "I better not say a single disrespectful thing to that big, burly Jew, or he'll break my skinny Arab butt in two."
That's where I was coming from with the question.
Ah, makes more sense.
I am not a small guy, no. But I was a pilot and am not as big as a burly ground crew guy, for example.
Two things: one, yes they hate Jewish people. But they tolerate openly Jewish people in Saudi more than openly Christian people (I suppose) because Jewish people do not evangelize.
I also was dealing with air force people. These are upper class, intelligent sorts, that spend a lot of time in the USA and abroad. Generally not religious and get more open news sources.