The O’Rielly Factor: Attack Islam

WASHINGTON, October 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A Fox TV Talk Show host, Bill O’Reilly has come under attack for declaring that “the most unattractive women in the world are probably in the Muslim countries.”

The U.S. organization, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), said that O’Reilly, who hosts the O’Reilly Factor, current affairs talk show, was being interviewed by men’s magazine Stuff, when he made his comments.  

He was asked what he found attractive and he said he rules out devout Islamic women who favor traditional dress, said CAIR. 

“You can't see them," O'Reilly playfully tells the magazine. "So you are
assuming that, if (they're) dressed head to toe in black and I can only see eyebrows, there's something going on."

U.S. Newspaper Contra Costa Times said that Arab-American activists have wasted no time in denouncing him. Hussein Ibish, of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said: "If he really believes this, then he probably needs his head examined. If he's making an attack on traditional standards of modesty in some Muslim societies, I think it's a pretty badly phrased one. I think a lot of our members would be deeply offended by this. It's so idiotic." 

According to the paper O’Reilly said that: "There was no malice intended. It was just in jest." 

However, this is not the first time for O’Reilly to attack Islam. On July 10, he interviewed Dr. Robert Kirkpatrick from the University of North Carolina for his show. Kirkpatrick, an English Professor, was responsible for requiring freshman students at the university to read a book that explains portions of the Quran. 

While Kirpatrick was trying to explain the reasons behind choosing the book saying: “I'm not sure we do know what the basic tenets of Islam are. I certainly didn't before I started reading this book,” O’Rielly, claimed that his is ‘for’ academic freedom but said that he doesn’t know “what this serves to take a look at our enemy's religion.”

In the interview O’Rielly compared the Holy Quran to Hitler’s "Mein Kampf". He also said that followers of the Quran were “enemies”.

“I'm telling you, these are our enemies now. I mean, the Islamic fundamentalism is our enemy. And I would have preferred you to have an overall global look at the Islamic world rather than the Koran. See? I think it would have been more instructive. Would I be wrong there?,” he told his guest.

In an article O’Rielly wrote for the Jewish World Review, he proposes solutions to dealing with this ‘enemy. “The solution goes against the traditions of America. The way to fight Islamic terrorists is to terrorize them. Bring the war to their villages and homes. Strike them unexpectedly with lethal force. This cannot be done with conventional forces or with rules of engagement sanctioned by the Geneva Convention. Fighting terror with terror opens the grisly door of human rights violations and crimes against humanity. Yet it must be done.”

Even better, O’Rielly says, the United States and Britain should form elite commando units that would supervise the assassinations of known terrorist leaders and operatives.

“These killings could be contracted out to local people, or they could be done by the U.S. Delta Force or the British SAS. But they must be done quietly and methodically.”

“Eliminating terrorist leaders and the people who encourage them -- including Muslim clerics -- would be both effective and permissible, considering the global threat they present,” he said.

In addition to hosting the “O’Rielly Factor” show on Fox News, O’Rielly is also the author of a book titled “ The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”.

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