if he is new to the Middle East...then yes, I do think he has no clue..its so foreign to western culture that it sparks curiosity. Even I didn't know what women wore under them until I went to a wedding and the ladies took the abayas off.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the main difference between a dog and man.
-Mark Twain-