[Mr Rogers]

I had a Muslim roommate for a while in the late 70s. He was honest as could be, feared both the Shah AND the Ayatollah (said both were evil, just one was secular evil and one was religious evil), polite, loved America and wanted to stay in America for religious freedom. He would tell anyone at length why America was vastly superior to Iran.

I also knew a number of honest Turks, at least to the extent I could know them while there.

Saudis? Never met one who knew what the truth was. Got the same impression of Afghans.

[Hulka]

Thanks. But that was back in the day before the Shah fell and 911.
Different now, they are emboldened.