Ann has been a guest on my radio program several times. I am reminded that John the Baptist was a prophet too, telling all of what was to come (the Christ). For bravely predicting the future and unshirkingly telling the truth, his head was served on a platter…
Anti-Islam message canceled – Loveland Reporter-Herald
Anti-Islam message canceled
Koran-burning Ann Barnhardt’s appearance before Loveland group scrapped
By Tom Hacker Reporter-Herald Staff Writer
At her mildest, Ann Barnhardt appears on a poster, dressed in pink high-heeled shoes, toting a pink AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, standing side-by-side with a heroic portrait of Joan of Arc.
At her most extreme, the slim, dark-haired woman with wide, bright eyes appears before an American flag, holding a copy of the Quran bookmarked with raw bacon, reading pages aloud, tearing them out and setting them ablaze in a large vase.
Barnhardt’s tough, explicitly illustrated anti-Islamic message first played in Loveland in Sept. 20 at a meeting of the Loveland 912 Project.
“She’s out there. That’s for sure,” 912 Project chairman Tom Buchanan said. “I don’t think we’ll be asking her back again anytime soon.”
Yet Barnhardt was scheduled, until a cancellation on Friday, to bring her presentation back to the region again tonight at a meeting of the Colorado Conservative Union, a group for which Buchanan also serves as chairman.
He said Friday he had learned only recently that Barnhardt would return, and that he had not planned to attend tonight’s event, having already hosted her at the 912 gathering.
“She’s got some pretty strong convictions, and those strong convictions attract people,” Buchanan said of Barnhardt. “These days, we’re looking for leaders, no matter how wrong they might be. Maybe that bluntness that she has is what attracts people.”
Barnhardt’s appearance had been set for 6 p.m. tonight at Johnson’s Corner Truck Stop and Café.
‘Not In My House’
But owner Chauncey Taylor, upon hearing about the speaker and her presentation, contacted the CCU organizers on Friday and canceled the event.
“I don’t want anyone who is espousing violence, or inviting violence upon themselves, to be here,” Taylor said after investigating Barnhardt’s website and talking with event organizers.
“My duty is to keep this a safe and uplifting place for our customers and employees. Anyone who is going to advocate violence is not welcome. That’s not acceptable, not in my world, not in my house. If you’re espousing hate, please don’t come to my house.”
Barnhardt, who described herself in an interview Friday as a “traditional, pre-Vatican II, Latin-Mass Catholic,” rejects any distinction between Islamic extremists and Muslims in general.
She said also that she rejects the notion that Islam is a religion, and that Muslims therefore enjoy First Amendment protection.
“It’s not a religion,” she said. “It’s a totalitarian political system. It is a seditious system, working against every government on the face of the earth.”
In the pages of a translated Quran, Barnhardt says she finds evidence that its contents also advocate “homosexuality, pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, … oh, and incest. That, too.”
The CCU newsletter advertising Barnhardt’s appearance warns of “the graphic and potentially offensive content of our speaker’s material,” and says children will not be allowed to attend — and for good reason.
‘Absolutely offensive’
“It is not potentially offensive,” Barnhardt said. “It is absolutely offensive. I have photographs of female genital mutilation” that she says are part and parcel of Islam.
“I’m going to show the information that needs to be shown,” she said. “This business of burying your head in the sand has got to stop.”
Yes, Barnhardt has received death threats, most recently after the posting of her Quran-burning video on YouTube, where it has been translated into 10 languages including Arabic.
“Watch your back,” a Muslim living in Britain wrote. “I’m going to kill you when I find you.”
Barnhardt did not seek police help. She replied, “You don’t need to ‘find’ me,” then listed her address in Lonetree.
“Luckily for you, there are daily direct flights from Heathrow to Denver,” she wrote, then gave detailed directions to her home.
“Just do me one favor. Please wear body armor. I have some new ammunition that I want to try out.”
Her broad-brush treatment of the followers of Islam calls for a solution to what she calls “Muslim creep,” a movement that she says will destroy the nation.
“Mass deportation is the solution,” she said, adding that American-born Muslims will have a choice.
“If they refuse to renounce Islam, try them for treason,” she said. “If we don’t act, we’ll be living under the tyranny of a Marxist-Islamic jackboot.”
I love this gutsy woman. She tells it like it is so much so the muslims are offended. When the truth offends the mind it reveals the heart.
They’d rather kill her than debate her. Do these muslims think the Quran is some secret book? Geesh! I have a copy of it (well, one version of it) -came with the classic literature set from 1973.