text: Two years ago, I had a part-time job instructing at a college in New York.  There were a few Muslim students from the Middle East and Asia studying there.  None of them said they had been harassed by US immigration when they came from the Middle East; their documents were checked very thoroughly, but they were let into the US without any problem.\nUnfortunately, the media in the Muslim countries are very similar to those in the West, in that they can mis-report stories and make every little incident into a huge issue.  Personally, I don't trust much of what the media report from any country overseas.  I take into account the experiences that I have had working with people from foreign countries.  I know from experience that most Muslims are kind, gracious people.  And I hope that Muslims will learn that most of us in the West are the same.\nIt seems to me that the biggest problem Saudi students face when they come to the US to study is that they are placed into a culture that is VERY different from the one in which they were raised.  They do not have to become Westernized, but they do need to understand and accept the differences.\nPeople of good will , no matter what their culture, can usually work out differences peacefully if they try hard enough.