Anti-american violence is escalating and those clashes are having effects back at home: business travel alerts, local students studying abroad and students here with families overseas.
Uprisings and riots broke out at the American Embassies in Egypt and Libya, which spread through the entire region. The international crisis hits a little closer to home for some MSU students who have family members living in Libya.
"They just don't know what to do about it. They don't know where to put their faith right now. They don't know whether to trust the new government," said MSU student Yasmin Abdulhamid.
Yasmin Abdulhamid is a Libyan-American who says she's worried about her extended family, almost all of whom are still in Libya.
"There's always the worry of security and there are people running around with weapons," said Abdulhamid.
Abdulhamid says she and her family in Libya feel its unfortunate the actions of a few extremists give Libyans everywhere a bad name.
"For the most part, Libyans are sad and they view this as something extremely unfortunate," she said.
"What happened or what's happening now doesn't represent our religion, doesn't represent everybody in the country," said MSU student Anan Abu-Bakera.
Anan Abu-Bakera's a Palestinian student who lived in Libya for 15 years before coming to MSU. He says at the Islamic Center in East Lansing, there is no sympathy for violent extremists.
"Every religion, every nation, every kind of people, you'll find extremes. That doesn't mean everybody's like that," said Abu-Bakera.
