US-Saudi relations take a turn for the worse...

So most of the students here are American; the remaining 10% or so are European or Canadian, mostly German. We all live on the same floor of a dorm, except for a couple of American guys, including a Muslim guy named Allah Hafiz, who live on the floor below us with a bunch of Saudis.

Apparently the Saudis have been treating these two guys like crap since they got here. One threatened to hit Hafiz with his prayer mat, they've been putting shaving cream on the stairs and lubricant on door handles, and other stuff like that. Apparently they've also been talking loudly about how we are probably spies ("eYen") for the U.S. government, which isn't far from the truth since the strong majority of students here want to work for U.S. agencies using their Arabic.

Anyway Hafiz snapped last night and yelled a lot of racist stuff at the Saudis (Hafiz is Indian-American and his family is actually from East Africa, like many of the Indian diaspora), and now they're having a conflict resolution meeting in the courtyard. Walked by and it looked pretty intense. I heard Hafiz saying something like "Is that funny to you???" and one of the Saudi guys replying "You know, we said it was just a joke" in a manner that suggested he didn't mean it. Anyway I think that Hafiz and the other guy Jonah will be moving up here.

I thought Muslims were supposed to at least treat each other as equals. I guess that doesn't work as well in practice as in theory.