Diversity is OK if it excludes the majority of Americans

I'm actually quite fond of the NYT, but following SARAH BOXER's ridiculous Pro-American Iraqi Blog Provokes Intrigue and Vitriol with Islamic Pilgrims Bring Cosmopolitan Air to Unlikely City is truly self-parody: no non-Muslims are allowed in the city. If there were an American or Western European city that excluded nearly four fifths of the world's population, the Western press would hardly celebrate its diversity. The tone of An American Woman's View of the Hajj on NPR yesterday was similar.