COULTER SLANDERS JEWS AGAIN

NJDC issued the following press release today:

COULTER SLANDERS JEWS AGAIN
Says Jews Believe Jesus a “Raving Lunatic”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 18, 2007

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Within days of saying that Jews should be “perfected” and that America would be better off where Judaism thrown away Ann Coulter has struck again, telling right wing radio host Michael Medved that “the Jews believe that my savior, a Jew, was a raving lunatic, and you don’t see me sniffling and crying.”

“Broadcasters know exactly what they are getting when they choose to put Coulter on the air,” said NJDC Executive Director Ira N. Forman. “The next time a news network chooses to help her sell books by giving her air time, we can only assume they are tacitly endorsing her behavior. And, if Republican presidential candidates continue to abstain from condemning her, they are tacitly endorsing her behavior as well.

The full quote from Ann Coulter:

“But Judaism, as I explained -- Christians accept the Old Testament. Jews don't accept the New Testament, so, you know, as long as we're playing this new sport of ‘he who is offended first wins,’ if anyone's going to be offended by anyone else's religion, the Jews believe that my savior, a Jew, was a raving lunatic, and you don't see me sniffling and crying.”

[Media Matters for America: http://mediamatters.org/items/200710160009?f=h_top]

NJDC has an online petition to ask the broadcast networks to stop booking Coulter as a guest. It can be signed at http://www.njdc.org/stopcoulter.html

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Comments

[Amy Rosenberg]

If Jews can forgive thousands of years of offensive conversion techniques in which children were taken and some persons were tortured and burned alive, then Ms. Coulter and her ilk can do us the favor of stopping these offensive comments. Jews and folks of other religions long ago got the message and realize that we are not considered fullt loved by G-D if we do not accept Christian interpretations of the creator of us all. All we really want is to be allowed to live our religious lives according to our own values.

[Carla Skidmre]

I do not have "an account" but I hope that you will print my comment to the uninformed Ms. Coulter.
Ms. Coulter, you and all Christians should do some reading and you will then learn that Jesus was Jewish and was born of Jewish parents. He wanted all of us to be accepting of all faiths, persons, both male and female, no matter what their station in life.
Unfortunately many so called Christians and especially the more rigid, right wing, fundamentalist Christians think that their way is the only way. How sad, as there are "many trails to the top of the mountain."

[Michael F. Gebbia]

There is far too much intolerance, racism and bigotry in the world. Everyone has the right to believe in whatever religion, spiritual, or belief system they choose. What there is too little of, is love and respect for each other. War, violence, hypocrisy, lies, deceit, and injustice would not be the chosen path of any great secular, spiritual or religious leader. It was not the way of Jesus and ought not be the way of any of his followers, including Ann Coulter or anyone else who may think and believe as she does.

[Paul Levin]

Ms. Coulter is the mouthpiece for religious bias and hatred. She is following the current political administration's attempts at toppling this nation's respect and morality by spewing hate and fear. Fortunately, she has a Constitutional right to say what she wants as do all citizens of this nation. The rest of us have the right to call her down for what she really represents. It is sad but real that the mainstream media are so headline and power hungry that their sense of right and wrong has long been discarded as unprofitable. If there is no 'news', by its actual meaning, they invent it by allowing, over and over, persons of Ms. Coulter's ilk to speak to her prejudices and incite dialog adverse to her utterances. She is truly part of what has been going wrong in this nation for far too long. The lessons of great religious leaders and either testament speak of tolerance and understanding and love for one another. When will this earthly civilization wake up and begin to do what is right for We, the People around the world?