Ah, but the Muslims do accuse us of being Crusaders! So, she pressed the matter with an ironic vengeance. She is always indulging in this kind of flamboyant irony, I might add.
If she was kidding, then why was she canned? Because most people, even most conservatives, do not have a Christian's sense of irony. And most people do not like aggressive Christianity--even rhetorically aggressive Christianity.
Ah Doc, sorry burst your bubble, but she wasn't being facetious when she initially made that statement in a column that she wrote for National Review shortly after 9/11.
She wrote "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity"
National Review dropped her as a columnist shortly thereafter. They did not consider her words facetious.