Hmmm, that must be a hard decision for language-studying college kids. USATODAY reports: “Despite an expansion of federal efforts to promote learning Arabic and other languages of the Islamic world, there has been no dramatic increase in Americans studying in countries where such languages are spoken, according to the latest statistics on overseas study. That’s the case even though the number of Americans studying abroad has more than doubled since the mid-1990s.” The story doesn’t mention the s-word (sharia), human-rights issues, you’re-either-with-us-or-against-us conerns, etc., in a number of these countries, but if it were my kid…it wouldn’t be an attractive option.