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jv, I have seen your yeoman's work translating Arabic documents into English so that we might have some idea of what went on in Iraq under Saddam. Which only tells me that you are avid to learn the truth, and that your cultural background could be other than Christian.
You see the interview without ever having read the New Testament of the Bible, and you may not notice the true dynamics of that interview. What you see in the interview is a person who is not a Christian (in this case, a Jew) placing a Christian in a position to either affirm or reject what the New Testament says. And, when she affirmed it, you see the nonchristian condemning the Christian for intolerance equivalent to that of a Muslim extremist threatening to murder him for not agreeing with her.
If you reread that interview, you will see that that is plainly not the case and the interviewer was the one who drove the conversation exactly where it went. It took a bit of pushing - and accusatory insinuation - to get to the stage where she said:
COULTER: Well, OK, take the Republican National Convention. People were happy. They're Christian. They're tolerant. They defend America, they —
I put it to you, jv, that a sincere Muslim would belive, and a candid one would say, that the world would be a better place if everyone was a Muslim. Just so Ann, a sincere and candid Christian, said that the world would be a better place if everyone were a Christian. In response, the interviewer went into high dudgeon:
DEUTSCH: Christian — so we should be Christian? It would be better if we were all Christian?
. . . and persists in taking umbrage at the fact that Ann is a sincere and candid Christian. Well, guess what! The relevant section of the Constitution of the United States states,
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
That means that Christians have the right to be and act as Christians, even if that means saying what the Bible says - when asked! And even if the person who asked wants to hear something else. When Ann invited - didn't threaten to bring him in irons but invited - the Jewish interviewer to come to her church, the interviewer would have been perfectly in his rights to reply by inviting her to visit his synagogue. And no offense would have been taken. But the last thing the interviewer was thinking about was to promote Judaism, or to offer to include her in it. He took the moment to attack Christianity.
It was not Coulter but Deutsch who was grandstanding for attention. Ann's discussion was about her ideas and beliefs, and Deutsch's rant was basically only about Deutsch.

Thank you for the nice words, I greatly appreciate it. Again you are one of many freepers that I agree with them the vast majority of the times but we disagree in this case, but that is normal :)

Let me just clarify few points if I may. I have read the New Testament a good numbers of times, and I would like to tell you that after I finished my undergraduate degree from college I wanted to be a seminary and may be a monk after that, however conditions changed and I am into the material world now and away from the grace of Christ. I have to admit that I am not a good Christian, and I know that my sins are worse than most people because I know very well that I should not be doing the transgressions that I commit on a daily basis.

Having said that and back to Anne Coulter statement, it is very wrong what she said. No matter how strong are your Christian believes you do not go on TV and in a political interview tell a group of people, in this case the Jews, that they will be perfected if they convert to Christianity. It is deeply offensive for the Jews and I simply cannot accept it myself. Anne Coulter went way over the top here and that is my humble opinion.