The purpose of my trip was to recruit international students from the Arab/Muslim world for an American university. People (American people) I know often ask if I'm scared to go to the Middle East. I think anyone can tell from my posts I'm not.
The thing is, so many people I meet over there are afraid to come to the US. They ask if they will be persecuted or hated because they are Muslim.
So here it is. We're afraid of them. They're afraid of us. It's heartbreaking. People to people there is great affinity among us. Government to government there is fear. The media is no friggin' help either.
It's not all because of what happened on 9/11. But, that's a huge piece of it.
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