I've been to the Middle East.
I suspect you haven't...

And your personal fear of Muslims in general is not shared by me.


Your question is like asking me what paths I would take for scuba diving. As I have never looked into such an activity, it's not a realistic question.

But to answer it anyways, the below would probably be the factors I would look at...
From the article I gave...

It has a repressive central government, Stronski said, many corrupt border officials and a poor citizenry reliant on money sent home by relatives working elsewhere, usually in Russia, or earned through illicit activities. Furthermore, there is a large terrorist presence just over the border in northern Afghanistan. (U.S. State Department Travel Advisory Level 4: “Do not travel.”)

The Pamir Highway goes right next to Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M41_highway

__________________
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
~Abraham Lincoln

I know your statement was not directed at me, but I feel that I needed to comment on it.

I don't fear Muslims, but I also would not travel in areas of the world that have shown hostility towards Americans. That could be many places in the ME, Europe, Asia or many other parts of the world. It is just common sense.

I don't fear kindergarten aged children either, but if you get enough of them together with bad intentions, I would fear the group.

__________________
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington