Posted on 10/01/2001 10:00:14 PM PDT by Jean S
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Even by her usual incendiary standards, Ann Coulter's response to the terrorist attacks was something of a jaw-dropper.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," the conservative commentator declared in her column on National Review Online.
Those words created an uproar at the Web site, which refused to run a follow-up piece in which Coulter singled out what she called "swarthy males." She promptly began bad-mouthing National Review, which responded by axing her as a contributing editor.
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Actually, that was an idea in Abbie Hoffman's book, Steal This Book. Remember Abbie Hoffman, the 1960's anti-war, pro-communist agitator who was part of the "Chicago Seven" who were charged with criminal acts during the 1968 Democrat Party Convention in Chicago?
Anyway, he suggested taking those Return Postage Paid postcards or envelopes from junk mail, and taping them to a brick and mailing it. If enough people did so, the theory was, the postage due could bring the capitalist pigs to their knees in bankruptcy!
BTW - you cannot find copies of Hoffman's book in any library. They've all been stolen!
There it is again. I have seen this accusatory presumption many times.
I did not see anything about Forced Conversion to anything.
I have heard many liberals jump to the same conclusion.
This conclusion is usually reserved to those who have an unnatural fear of proselytizing of any kind.
I never assumed she meant forced converstion, therefore I will give her the benefit of the doubt.
Since I usually agree with true traditional American conservatives, I do not have a default mechanism set up that automatically assumes the worst meaning from the mouth of a Christian conservative.
I think we should give this ally the benefit of the doubt.
I presume what she really meant was that we need to get rid of the murderers who keep these people away from the truth; that keep these people in the bondage of a false religion that will produce yet more terrorists in the future.
Ann was rightly getting directly to the root of the problem; the leaders will kill anyone who would attempt to give them a chance to hear the tenets of biblical Christianity, so they are stuck with this religion of terrorism that they have. You have to get rid of the Osama bin Ladens
Her sentiments are much like General Douglas MacArthur's at the end of World War 2; he pushed hard to send as many Christian missionaries as possible to Japan to replace the anscestor and emperor worship that was the existing religion (their leaders were already either dead or powerless). He saw this religion as inferior to Christianity and also as a reason for their aggression.
She is just wanting to get rid of the underlying problem, the religion of following the koran as it is written.
The Taliban come to mind.
Ann can do it. She is inclined to convert some
people to death. That's what started her flame
war with Jonah. The editor. Ouch.
LOFL !!! Spoken just like a sneaky, smacked-arse liberal, lol.
Thanks for proving my point - - liberals hate Ann as much as they hate the truth.
Of course, none of those people could ever hope to be as accomplished as Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter's columns slamming libertarians
and the war she got in with Jonah over it
count for nothing with social conservatives,
I realize. But you aren't the only ones
on FR.
true and you are correct
Well it was a stupid statement. How can you convert dead leaders to Christianity? She should have stated that we should convert everyone we don't kill to Christianity. It was her grammer that got her in trouble. Syntax can be deadly.
What we need at a time like this is a Pope who has the cajones to call a CRUSADE. Too bad Maggie Thatcher isn't Catholic.
(it's getting late) It's Kate O'Beirne.
Maybe not, but a few well placed fuel-air bombs certainly would give them a short look at their future eternal Islamic Paradise.
It only took two small nuclear blasts to convince almost every Japanese citizen that Hirohito was not God.
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