10-29-2004, 02:40 PM
According to Rocky Mountain News, Colorado GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors managed to offend the American Muslim community twice in one day yesterday. He was reported saying – ‘Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus are pretty tolerant of other people's religions,’ and then offered his own interpretation of the Qur’an, saying, ‘It does tell you if you don't go along with their beliefs, you are infidel and can be subject to jihad. Radicals take it to an extreme.’
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations responded to the comments by saying ‘unfortunately it’s all too representative of Islam bashing we see in Zionist circles.’ A recent poll by CAIR found that a quarter of Americans believe a number of anti-Muslim stereotypes, and negative images of Muslims, created by Zionist media, are 16 times more prevalent than positive ones.