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.
"You can destroy our buildings and murder thousands of our citizens, and that's OK. I never went downtown much, anyway... But if you don't let me sit in the front row at your religious ceremonies, you'll get my dander up!"
It's not like the Muslims as a group killed any friends she lost; that conclusion would have been politically incorrect and biased. The ones in the North Tower died of bad luck, nothing more. The same for her friends in the South Tower, in the Pentagon (if she had any friends there), on the four airplanes, and for my friends in the Marine barracks in Beirut, and in so many other places. You can't generalize from a few thousand Muslims who commit terrorist acts and the billion who cheer their mass murders to all followers of Islam, can you?
A sexless life amongst cats and gays will do that to you.
Could we revoke her passport and leave her in Saudi?
She would make a Sultan a good wife. (after the ritual numerous beatings)