Right-wing speaker to file human rights complaint
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CALGARY — American right-wing commentator Ann Coulter said Thursday she intends to file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission over the way she was treated by the University of Ottawa earlier this week.
In Calgary Thursday night, a small group of protesters gathered outside a Calgary venue before Coulter spoke to a sold-out crowd, a vastly different scene from that she faced in Ottawa a few days earlier.
About 20 people held signs — one said "Calgary is Cold to Coulter" and a small child’s said "I don’t have a camel or a flying carpet, can you lend me your broomstick?"
The event was supposed to be held at the University of Calgary campus, but was moved to the Red and White Club, which overlooks McMahon Stadium, after her speech at the University of Ottawa was cancelled earlier this week when hundreds of protesters came out.
They came out after Coulter told a Muslim student at the University of Western Ontario in London that she should "take a camel" for international travel after the student challenged a previous Coulter statement that Muslims shouldn’t be allowed on airplanes and should take flying carpets instead.
Kyle Thorpe, who wore a T-shirt with the slogan "Free Speech Does Not Equal Free Hate," is not a fan, but bought a ticket to the Calgary event anyway. He said he wanted hear her out and might ask her a question after her speech.
Before her speech in Ottawa Tuesday, provost Francois Houle sent her a note urging her to educate herself about Canada’s hate laws, saying that promoting hatred against an identifiable group could lead to criminal charges.
The inflammatory commentator pulled out of that appearance after 1,500 people tried to get into the venue that was already filled to capacity with pre-registered guests.
Coulter has made a name for herself in the U.S. through appearances on Fox News and she has written a number of books. She is famous for saying "not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims" and accusing the widows of those who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of being self-obsessed and enjoying their husbands’ deaths.
— The Canadian Press
