Ms. Miller's bad news is that Middle Easterners suffer from what is arguably the world's highest ratio of discontent to civilization.

Once the purview of local Middle Easterners, the nonalcoholic late-night sheesha (tobacco water-pipe) experience is going mainstream.

Turner's astonishment at "how many dark, kinky-haired Middle Easterners have invaded this country in the last decade" is not changed.

For all that Middle Easterners get enraged with America, many others value it, envy it and want their kids there.

He said that many younger Middle Easterners were marrying non-Middle Easterners.

But like other flight school owners, he said no Middle Easterners had enrolled.

"Maybe she should have said terrorist-oriented Middle Easterners."

Or disgruntled Middle Easterners might infiltrate "American Idol."

And after the Oklahoma ordeal, there were countless unfocused accusations, all baseless, that it must have been the work of Arabs or other Middle Easterners.