[Navy Patriot]

Laura’s Asian boyfriend, Ashtiaq Ashgar...

For the few that don't know the PC code word, an "Asian" is a Muslim.

[sjmjax]

I don't think the term is exactly "PC" as we would understand it.

Europeans have always, or at least as long as this old man can remember, refered to middle eastern people as "asians". As in "Asia Minor". They rarely use the term "middle east".