Ann Coulter Says Muslims "Smell Bad"; US Muslim Group Demands Media Reject Her

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[GulliverSwift]

Ann Coulter Says Muslims 'Smell Bad'; CAIR: Media Should Reject Commentator's Bigotry

3/10/2004 3:34:00 PM

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WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on major media outlets to end their association with a controversial conservative pundit who recently suggested that Muslims "smell bad." The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said syndicated columnist Ann Coulter, who frequently appears as a guest on cable news programs, made that Islamophobic remark in a recent commentary on Mel Gibson's new film "The Passion of the Christ."

Coulter wrote: "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'). She also referred to: "(The Prophet) Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill non-believers whenever possible."

SEE: "THE PASSION OF THE LIBERAL" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20040304.shtml

"We believe strongly in freedom of speech and support Ann Coulter's right to hold even bigoted and hate-filled views," said CAIR Communications Coordinator Rabiah Ahmed. "But credible media outlets should not associate themselves with or serve to legitimize such overt racism and Islamophobia." Ahmed called on newspapers that publish Coulter's column and on cable news channels that invite her as a guest commentator to reconsider promoting someone who spreads virulent hatred and intolerance.

Coulter has made a number of similarly anti-Muslim comments since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Immediately following the attacks, she suggested that "we should invade their (Muslim) countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Coulter wrote in Worldnetdaily.com: "While Judaism and Christianity begin with the Creation, Islam reveres a God who creates nothing."

When asked whether she would recommend "Muslim-free air travel," Coulter said: "This is my idea...I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When asked how Muslims would travel, she responded: "They could use flying carpets." (Guardian, 5/17/03) Coulter also referred to Middle Easterners as "camel riding nomads" and said Egyptians have an "aversion to bathing."

CAIR is America's largest Islamic civil liberties group.

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NOTE: CAIR offers an e-mail list designed to be a journalist's window to the American Muslim community. To SUBSCRIBE to ISLAM- INFONET, go to: http://cair.biglist.com/islam-infonet/

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[Soaring Feather]

Grim look on Captain Kirks face. I believe him, it's dead.

[MeekOneGOP]

She's saying, "Don't monkey with me"!!

And the Troll Cornelius Jay McGuyver is gone now too ...

Monkey wins ! ;^)

[Salamander]

I truly have no idea to whom I was referring.
I just recalled the quote, is all.
Another poster says it was Dr. Samuel Johnson.
I'll leave you two to duke it out over the proper attribution....;)

[chaos and confusion over literary quotes! my work here is done!]....LOL!

[azhenfud]

"Pakinasties"

ROTFLOL!

[Victoria Delsoul]

I like Ann Coulter, and I like her article.

[KosmicKitty]

I went to grad school at a University that got most of their money from foreign students. I guess that being a woman of scandinavian extraction, blonde hair, blue eyes, I was different from the women that many of the foreign students had seen at home. No matter how I tried to "fill" the seats around me be putting my belongings in the next chairs, I seemed to always end up with the worst smelling foreign students, usually middle-eastern, in what ever class, moving my stuff so they could sit next to me. Man, I use to be surrounded!

Personally, I would have preferred sitting next to a goat!! Sorry, but that's the truth!!

[PhilDragoo]

I bought Ann Coulter, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, Regnery, 1998, at a time when the Republicans could not find their pants.

[Our congressman called me the night Clinton attacked Iraq to delay his Impeachment, stating that Clinton had outmaneuvered them, that Clinton should have been impeached for the Chinese treason, not the whole sex-related matter.]

Coulter's grasp of the case law--going back hundreds of years--is duly cited in meticulous footnotes.

It was she who first stated that Nixon wasn't Nixon--Clinton did what Nixon only was accused of doing.

I've subsequently purchased and read her Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, Regnery, 2002, and her Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Regnery, 2003.

In the latter she cites first M. Stanton Evans, calling him the premier McCarthy expert. He was my first inspiration of a first-person conservative icon, watching him debate Dr. Robert Risk of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union in 1964 during the passionate campaign for Barry Goldwater. Dick Allen and the national YAF convention in NYC in the Commodore, the first brash conservative efforts.

Dashed of course by the scumbag of the sixties Lyndon Bowelmovement Johnson and the smearing of Goldwater with that Daisy petal commercial.

Consequently 58,000 good men died, betrayed by politicians and their lies and treachery.

Ann Coulter is whore for nobody and nothing.

She's got the brass balls most Republicans in both houses lack.

And since Barbara Olson was murdered, there's nobody--nobody--who will call a damn' spade a spade--except Ann Coulter.

[King Prout]

*standing ovation*

[potlatch]

Good post, phil. After reading a thread about Hillary Clinton I think most of our 'good' Congressmen are afraid to speak up for fear of their own transgressions being revealed.

Thank goodness for Fox News, at least they reveal things the other news won't.

[nopardons]

You just joined FR, to say that?

[nopardons]

Great picture of the new member. LOL

[festus]

Thats disturbing but something we need to keep seeing. The phrase Never Forget has already been forgotten by to many.

I for one am pi$$ed off that we haven't seen entire nations of the world laid to waste in retaliation.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

"We believe strongly in freedom of speech and support Ann Coulter's right to hold even bigoted and hate-filled views," said CAIR Communications Coordinator Rabiah Ahmed. "But credible media outlets should not associate themselves with or serve to legitimize such overt racism and Islamophobia."

Hehehe. Um we're all for free speech, but please excuse our efforts to get her censored. God how stupid.

[lainde]

Coulter fan BTTT

[King Prout]

Vegans say the same thing about omnivores and carnivores.
I love it when they complain... It gives me an opportunity to describe the delightful qualities of venison, especially that stripped from "Bambi's momma"

I don't think it is a matter of diet... diet-based differences in scent can be peculiar, even disturbing, if you are not used to it, but it isn't really offensive enough to call it a stench (I prefer the good old Anglo-Saxon).
Additionally, there is nothing offensive about the scent of a hard-worked body... provided that body was clean when the workday began, and that the sweat is fresh.
OTOH... there is no redeeming quality in the reeking funk emitted by one who wears the same clothes day-in-day-out, stale sweat permeating every pore, dead cigarette ashes adding their pale sickly stench, all covered and knitted together into a ghastly miasma by the cloying noisome stink of overapplied masking scents.
I believe Ann was referring to this last combination of olfactory assaults.

[King Prout]

Purified olive oil or some other plant oil.
the technique used in ancient Rome was to work the oil into the skin, then scrape it off. It is a very effective exfoliation technique, and does remove a wide range of contaminants.
Unfortunately... plant-oils absorb into the living dermis, and there they do rot. And STINK.
There is no substitute for soap/detergent and water, applied vigorously and regularly.

[FreedomCalls]

Have you ever smelled their left hand?

Let's ask the Imam:

the custom of Shiites using their middle finger to swipe their anus after using the toilet, is it only applicable to Shiites or for all the Muslims.Are there any hadithes regarding this ?

~ Hmmm. Note to self: don't shake hands with Shiites, especially after they leave a restroom.

I'll leave it up to you to go read the Imam's answer.

[Brad’s Gramma]

My name is NOT Mabel Smith and I do NOT live in Los Angeles....ha! But the system took the comment from me!

You could be Mabel too! :-) Dare ya!

[Doctor Raoul]

Liberals have raised, "Mom,....he's looking at me again" to an art form.