I invited an Afghan colleague - & about 20  other Asian- Pacific  colleagues- from a State Dept. rural development program - to join me for a couple of weeks in Alaska after the program ended..  Fellow Alaskan professionals in Juneau invited these Asian professionals (they'd never met) who worked in fields similar to theirs to spend those weeks staying in their homes, observing our developing programs, and exchanging perspectives and ideas. My Afghan desert colleague was Commissioner of Education for the Province  of Kabul.  At the time I was living on my boat in Juneau - and he and I both shared a time of real growth in understanding, & in the exchange of creative approaches to making life richer for our respective populations.. I lost track of him with the multi-decade war conditions Afghans have had to experience - Here & there,  it is usually the ignorant or power-hungry that exude hate. Or easily-manipulated youth wanting to do "the right thing" for religious or political icons.