[reaganaut1]

Poor Maureen seems surprised by how Saudi Arabia and Islam treat non-Muslims. She should have read a book by Robert Spencer. According to the "rules" we need some Catherine Zeta-Jones pictures.

[kosciusko51]

From the article: I was surprised when the movie said that the Kaaba was built by “Abraham, the father of the Jews” — a reminder that the faiths have a lot to learn from each other.

The fact that she is surprised means that those with no faith have a lot to learn from those with faith. However, just because the Muslims have attempted to co-op central figures from Judaism and Christianity does not make it true.

[gov_bean_ counter]

So she's looking for a place where women have to cover their face? Probably a good career move for her.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"I was tempted to turn my abaya into a black masquerade cloak and sneak into Mecca, just hop over the Tropic of Cancer to the Red Sea and crash the ultimate heaven’s gate...."

Do it MODO! Go For it! ....and put your flogging on Pay Per View. It would keep you in Botox for all eternity!

[Happy Rain]

Burton was a Muslim convert—in fact a novice Sufi in the Shia sect.

He simply didn’t go around broadcasting the fact to the Western World—not good form,you know.
He was known among the many who hated him as that “white n*****.”

[whitedog57]

Maureen is not only shocked by the bigotry and hatred of the Arab culture, but will eventually conclude that its all the fault of Christianity.

She is so typical of the New York City “Chardonnay Circuit.” My relatives are in this circuit. They refuse to discuss anything of substance and if they get angry and are forced to, they simply blame Bush and conservatives.

Richard Burton was a brilliant soldier/adventurer and his sneaking into Mecca was only one of this many activities. He was a least actually puzzled by the mysteries of Islam. Maureen Dowd lives in NYC, probably had friends die on 9/11, yet continues to act like a Chardonnay Circuit Cruiser amd ignore the fact that Islam is an evil, hateful slave and murder cult.

[Oratam]

My impression is that most libs simply assume one religion is pretty much like any other, that Mohammed is pretty much like Jesus, and that the Koran is pretty much like the Bible.

If they could only overcome their inate mental (not to mention moral) laziness and actually investigate the facts of Islam (to say nothing of Christianity) they might actually start fighting to defend civilization.

[bergmeid]

The sheer stupidity of this article just amazes me. She just now finds out that she as a fine, tolerant, upstanding left wing citizen is not welcome in Mecca? That islam practices exclusivity? Many of us conservatives have known this for years and years but then again, we are being labeled as dumb. Good grief.

[raybbr]

[Haiku Guy]

This column is stunningly narcissistic and shallow, even for Maureen Dowd. I am dumbfounded.

The obligatory “can’t we all get along” at the end is the kicker, though. The cherry on top of the crap sundae.

Amazing!

[bergmeid]

Hey Maureen, you stupid twit, this is also the reason that the First Woman didn’t go to Saudi Arabia last year. She went straight home from Paris. Unlike her husband she is no muzzie therefore not welcome in Mecca and Medina. Didn’t do your homework now, did you.

[Scotsman will be Free]

“So isn’t there a way for Saudi Arabia to shed light on Islam and reclaim it from the radicals?”
What a stupid woman. The saudis are funding the wahhabists, aka the radicals, you frigging moron.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Couldn’t Mecca, I asked the royals, be opened to non-Muslims during the off-season?

This woman is a complete and utter moron.

[pnh102]

I can’t believe we let such stupid people out of the country. She is lucky she did not get killed for pulling any of these tricks in Saudi Arabia.

[niteowl77]

I did not realize the extent of Dowd's ignorance of reality until reading this piece. The cluelessness is so thick that the whole column could easily be passed off as parody.

Mr. niteowl77

[LibLieSlayer]

Keep her... give her a real closely cropped hairdo... just below the ears.

LLS

[AppyPappy]

Welcome to Reality, Maureen. Sit in the back, please.

[Liberty Valance]

MoDo attempts to climb MoMo's mountain and ends up at the Imax ...

[xp38]

Mo has obviously never seen images like this on the internet or anywhere else on her Chardonnay Circuit. According to the caption of this photo if you continue on you meet a police checkpoint further down the road.

[NTHockey]

Stupid cow. She finds it offensive to be “consigned” to a portion of the Western Wall, but finds no problem in sitting in a “segregated” part of a mosque. And dressed according to Mohammedan law.

I’m sure that the Mohammedan invaders will treat her more kindly for her willingness to accept them - in a harem!

[Apparatchik]