If they are anything like the Saudis my daughter encountered on her college campus, they’re being discriminated against because they are spoiled, coddled jerks with too much money to get into trouble and a leering, condescending attitude towards women.
Back in the 70s, Iranians suddenly showed up at my university my senior year. What a disaster. They absolutely HATED being here. They acted like it was torture being here. They refused to speak to anyone, rarely came to class and stayed to themselves. They never did the class work or answered in class. The professors were told to pass them which didn’t help the rest of us when we were graded on the bell curve.
Around 2002, I was on UT Austin’s campus and feared for my life. Muslims were occupying the main stretch and yelling and raising their fists at everyone passing. They had tables set up but don’t know what for because you wanted to stay as far away as possible.
When I was in college the Saudis were by far the worst foreign students. The Chinese worked hard. The Indians worked hard. Even a few Turks I knew worked hard. The Saudis coasted, cheated and generally were a pain in the ass. I figure the never did a day’s hard work before coming to the US for study and weren’t about to start then.