More Arabs are getting educated in India:

Kerala, India]: Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 25 : Arabs in the Middle East are increasingly looking towards India instead of just the US and Europe for education and tourism, said P.V. Vivekanand, editor of the Dubai-based daily Gulf Today.

The first Malayali editor of an English daily published from the Middle East was here to receive the Kerala Kalakendram Golden Honours Award instituted to honour internationally acclaimed members of the community.

"If the most favoured destination of many Arabs was the US and Europe till recently, they are today more attracted to India and Kerala. Thailand and Indonesia are also important destinations, but they are now looking towards India especially in sectors like education and tourism," Vivekanand told reporters.

He said a delegation of businessmen from Saudi Arabia was expected to arrive in Kerala shortly and the authorities should see what could be done to get more Arabs into Kerala.

I'm not sure whether this is because India is getting more attractive, while still offering good value for money, which it is; or Arabs getting less stupid at spending their money (or maybe that a new sort of not-so-stupid-with-money Arab is at last coming on stream in enough numbers to make a difference). Any of those trends would be welcome ones.

The bad news would be if the Indian end was simply idiot Indian Muslims teaching idiot Muslimism and nothing but (the nothing-but bit being the idiocy).