[KJC1]

The fact that they're from Egypt doesn't mean squat as far as their ability to navigate or use maps or...ask people for help.

[muawiyah]

Sure it does ~ I once spent several days in winter helping some 18 year old students from Saudi Arabia get acquainted with Indiana University in January when it was bitter cold.

They loved the snow. They did not love gloves or keeping their hats and scarves on.

We had to let them get near frostbite with some serious numbing before they learned.

Middle Easterners are usually not as well acquainted with modern life as Americans.

[mass55th]

"The fact that they're from Egypt doesn't mean squat as far as their ability to navigate or use maps or...ask people for help."

I totally agree. I took my first trip overseas this past May. I traveled to Belgium, Netherlands, France, and the UK. I'm a 59 year old female and traveled by myself. Before I went, I made sure I sat down and looked at maps and books, trying to familiarize myself where things were and how I had to get from point A to point B. I learned a long time ago, the only dumb question is the one you don't ask. I don't speak any other languages, and a lot of the people I dealt with were from countries other than the ones I was visiting, yet I never got lost and never had a problem communicating with anyone during the whole 33 days I was gone. If these guys are as stupid as we're being led to believe, they had no business being allowed to come here in the first place.