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Coulter slams gays, Muslims in Ontario visit
Stirs controversy during visit to Ontario university
By QMI Agency
Ann Coulter received both cheers and jeers while speaking at the University of Western Ontario on Monday. (MIKE HENSEN/QMI Agency)
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LONDON, Ont. -- A 17-year-old Muslim student sparked the testiest exchange and the loudest cheers and jeers at a speech by controversial U.S. conservative Ann Coulter at the University of Western Ontario Monday.
After a wide-ranging speech attacking gay rights activists, the mainstream media and the Barack Obama administration, Coulter took questions from an audience clearly divided in its support for her style of attack conservatism.
Fatima Al-Dhaher, a political science student from London, rose and spoke about comments Coulter made after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The firebrand Republican had suggested Muslim countries be invaded, their leaders killed and all Muslims converted to Christianity. She later suggested Muslims denied air travel take “flying carpets” instead.
“As a 17-year-old student of this university, Muslim, should I be converted to Christianity? Second of all, since I don’t have a magic carpet, what other modes do you suggest,” Al-Dhaher said to loud and sustained applause.
“I thought it was just American public schools that produced ignorant people,” Coulter replied, prompting her own round of applause.
Coulter then noted many Japanese were converted to Christianity after the Second World War and “we haven’t heard a peep out of them.”
To shouts of “Answer the question,” Coulter finally replied “What mode of transportation? Take a camel.”
“Are you going to convert her now?” another student shouted out.
“No, there are some people I just as soon not convert,” Coulter retorted.
Al-Dhaher, who left the session soon after, said she came to the speech because it’s important to hear all sides of the political spectrum.
But Coulter disappointed, Al-Dhaher said and raised one of the criticisms that has marked the conservative’s otherwise entertaining speeches.
“She just spewed all this nonsense, it was a comedic act.”
Coulter did not disappoint her many fans in the crowd of 800 with either her politics or her humour.
Little of Coulter’s speech touched on Canadian issues, but she did predict Americans would eventually “punch back” against the historic health-care deal — and a blow to Republicans — passed this week.
“I don’t know how we’re going to have the punch back, but four years of (Democratic President) Jimmy Carter brought us (Republican President) Ronald Reagan.”
Her 45-minute speech was loosely focused on political correctness, which gave her full reign to attack liberals of all stripes.
Liberals constantly complain their rights are being attacked in the same way blacks’ rights once were, she said.
“In America everybody wants to be black. The feminists want to be black, the illegal aliens want to be black, the gays want to be black,” she said.
Yet none of the complainers have anything serious to complain about, Coulter said.
“There are only two things gay men can’t do. Number one, get married to each other. Number two, throw a baseball without looking like a girl.”
But her jokes often had a serious point as well.
“Every Democrat in the past several election cycles that has run for president has sworn to attack gay marriage, but only Republicans get attacked for gay marriage.”
Backed by the mainstream media, liberals have turned political correctness into a weapon that attempts to silence people with opposing views, Coulter said.
Liberal pundits suggest Obama’s race helped him win the election, but conservatives cannot do the same, she said.
Feminists blame the Conservatives for an array of ills, but turned suddenly silent when former U.S. president Bill Clinton had sex with intern, she said.
“Political correctness has nothing to do with offending people or not offending people. It is purely about power,” she said.