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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[Dawgreg]

That's my Ann, nobody_knows. If she says they smell, well, then they smell. I'm sure Allah in his heaven would permit the use of Dial amongst his worshipers. :)

[concerned about politics]

They shave themselves and bathe to "become clean" before martyring themselves for Allah.
Maybe it's better they smell. That way, when they do bathe, we know what they're up to.
If Ann thinks they smell, so be it. I wouldn't know, but it's better than her being a lying PC liberal and saying they smell great when they really don't. Truth is always the best policy, whether it hurts or not.

Let's see. The PC thought police would jail her for "islamiphobia" speech.

[azhenfud]

"It helps so much when you have your facts straight, I find."

I agree - I regress.

[petercooper]

they don't?

[FormerLib]

[MineralMan]

"Maybe they should just get out of our country."

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Who should get out of our country? Muslim citizens of the USA? Are you serious?

[GulliverSwift]

My favorite comment of hers is her "gigolo" remark about Kerry. It's been my tagline for a while now.

[GigaDittos]

Rush just said that Ann didn't say that Muslims smell bad, and that they have twisted her words.

[mrfixit514]

"But credible media outlets should not associate themselves with or serve to legitimize such overt racism and Islamophobia."

I'm sure their condemnation of Al Jazeera will be coming shortly.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Is Anne saying that the French will get a pass from the Islamists?

[sarasota]

What? The Democratic media enablers twisting Ann's words? Say it isn't so.

[AmishDude]

"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')."

When I read this in her column, it reminded me of the propensity the Islamic terrorists had of killing fellow Muslims.

Not that I'm so much defending Ann. I just hate CAIR with a Passion. An unChristian passion, you might say.

[GulliverSwift]

You can read her article here

[GigaDittos]

Sure, the French smell bad. Maybe they have something in common.

[lizma]

Notice they complain about the "smell bad" comment and not the statement that they are mass murders. That tells ya somethin right there.

[Esther Ruth]

We could stop sending food to other contries and send soap instead - Not! I love good people no matter how much stink and pray for their freedom.

[Hunble]

Ditto

[nobody_knows]

[hang 'em]

"But credible media outlets should not associate themselves with or serve to legitimize such overt racism and Islamophobia."

Hey a$$hole, just because you and your psychotic zombies are out to kill me, my family and all my friends who don't believe in your pedophile, pornographic, death worshiping cult doesn't mean I'm islamophobic. FOES&D.

[Bismarck]

The CAIR smells bad.