Penraker provides a great list of terrorists who have failed to be Westernized by the "enlightening" experience of a Western college education. I had a similar experience in my first year in college. I was living with a student from Pakistan, and pre-9-11 the guy was one hell of a nice, laid back guy who wasn't particularly religious. He made some of the overtures of being religious, but often couldn't even bring himself to pray five times a day. Then, after 9-11, he started becoming extremely religious and radical, to the point that he all but wanted me dead.

The educational establishments are not culturally capable of handling this sort of thing. They simply do not appreciate the threat that these people can pose to their other students. Even though my roommate was starting to threaten me with violence, the Office of Residence Life refused to let me out of my living contract, and was terribly slow in processing my request to leave the dorm for a new one. They simply did not take it seriously until my parents called them up and more or less threatened legal action if they didn't expedite my leaving the dorm.

It just goes to show how parochial most "educated" Americans really are. Those that are so arrogant as to believe that a proto-radical will be saved by a mere four years of fancy education and partying are hardly a different breed of chauvenist than those who simply outright admit that they believe that America is the best culture and that everyone can and will submit to it. They may not come out with obvious statements like everyone should speak English around the world because we do, but they certainly believe that all other cultures are so weak that they simply get washed away in the face of American culture.

I have no problem with us educating students from other countries, but they shouldn't be paying out of state tuition. Rather, there should be an international tuition that is based on the assumption that since they have paid no tax to support the system, all of it must be paid up front. We can't screen out these bad apples most of the time, but we can acknowledge that their parents are typically the very wealthy from Islamic countries and charge them every penny we can get accordingly. My roommate came from a very wealthy family, as did all of his Pakistani acquaintances. I don't see why we shouldn't be charging them full price, knowing that there is a chance that this education might be used against us.