Ann Coulter Calls Christian Soldiers to Arms (Rats Attack Again)

inside ^ | 9/13/2001 | joseph gomes

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Ann Coulter Calls Christian Soldiers to Arms

In a country full of people eager for vengeance and with an ample supply of commentators, Ann Coulter can safely take the prize for the most hateful reaction to appear in print. Her column, which appeared on the right-wing National Review Online, ostensibly is a tribute to her friend Barbara Olson -- another frequent on-air commentator and writer who died in one of the hijacked airplanes on Tuesday -- but quickly devolves into something more akin to a call for a Crusade (or is that jihad?). “We know who the homicidal maniacs are,” she wrote referring to the Muslim states suspected of harboring those responsible for the attacks. “They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

And as inflammatory and outrageous as these sentiments certainly are, the National Review's editor said he was more or less OK with what she had to say.

“The column was obviously written with some degree of anger, rage, and grief and she probably went a little far on certain things but the essential point I think is accurate that the most drastic possible measures are called for,” says Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review. “What Ann is expressing is something a lot of Americans feel in such situations which is ... once the country is aroused we’re in for the full pound.”

Such extreme sentiments, like Coulter’s, are hardly in short supply. Thursday's New York Post offered this assessment: "This is war. It needs to be prosecuted as such. The men behind the men who rained havoc on New York and Washington need to be called to account. The heavens need to fall on their heads. They need to bleed. Not next month. Not next week. Now. Who are they? Who cares? Cast a wide enough net, and you’ll catch the fish that need catching."

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I don't see where converting them to Christianity or anything else for that matter would be so bad. I'd rather see them follow Buddhism which seems a bit more peace loving. Or they can be atheists for that matter, maybe secular humanists. I think something has to be done with the source of all that rage and hate for all kinds of people not them.