Ann Coulter Promotes Religious War

Wednesday November 26, 2003

If there is one person in America who can be counted on to say just the wrong thing, it has to be Ann "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" Coulter. Unless, of course, you are a religious and political bigot who refuses to grant that someone might reasonably disagree with you - in which case, Ann Coulter continually says the right thing. For example, Ann Coulter has recently repeated the idea that the War on Terrorism really is a religious war - a Christian Crusade, if you will.

Samantha Nelson writes for the Daily Northwestern about a speech Coulter delivered there recently:

"This is a religious war, not against Islam but for Christianity, for a Christian nation," Coulter said. "When this nation was founded, there was nothing like it. Our founders said there is a God and we are all equal before God. The ideal of equality and tolerance is like nothing that has ever existed in the world before. That, too, is a Christian value. The concept of equality, especially when it comes to gender equality, was not invented by Gloria Steinem -- it was invented by Jesus Christ. As long as people look long enough, they will always come to Christianity."

Henry Bowles, vice president of College Republicans, a sponsor of the event, said he was impressed by Coulter's performance. "I thought it could not have gone better, honestly," said Bowles, a Medill sophomore and Daily advertising representative. "I've never seen a speaker care more. Every person who asked a question from an opposing viewpoint walked away having heard a great answer. She wasn't evasive or anything. She galvanized conservatives and presented an interesting and legitimate view to liberals."

Hmmm... the accusation that all liberals are traitors, that notions of tolerance and equality originated in Christianity, and that America is a "Christian Nation" all qualify as "interesting and legitimate" views for liberals? What world does Henry Bowles live in and what color is the sky there, because it sure isn't anything like the world I inhabit where the behavior of people like Ann Coulter is the exact opposite of anything might reasonably qualify as "tolerance."

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