Posted on 04/16/2026 10:33:51 PM PDT by Milagros
The lies - and cowardice - of a onetime cable news darling of the Right.
Tucker Carlson, the onetime cable news darling of the Right, lost his mind around the time he was fired by Fox News on April 24, 2023. He has evinced this in countless ways — including his now-infamous fight with a demon, which he seems to have lost. But perhaps the most obvious symptom of Carlson’s brain rot is his yearslong soft jihad, now waged with increased fervency, to inject and normalize Islam within the cultural and political bloodstream of the overwhelmingly Christian American Right.
Recently, Carlson has repeatedly taken to praising sharia law and suggesting Islam and its totalitarian legal code offer an inspiring moral clarity in contrast with today’s Western decadence. He has visited virtually seemingly every country in the Arab world, produced propaganda films for a few of them, and even announced his attention to buy a house a Qatar. He has called Hamas not a jihadist but a political organization, said he’d apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden, and has severely downplayed the Americans who have been killed in recent decades by Islamism. And earlier this week, the eponymous Tucker Carlson Network, in a seemingly earnest post better suited for a satirical Babylon Bee headline, offered this cherry on top: “Muslims love Jesus.”
In short, Carlson is now leading a conscientious effort to aggressively promote Islam on the American Right. Reasonable minds can disagree as to why he is doing so. Perhaps he secretly converted. Perhaps Carlson’s undeniable hatred of the Jews is really that acute and debilitating. Perhaps he is cashing out and even defying the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Maybe it’s a combination of these causes. And frankly, to no small extent, who cares?
Because regardless: This is flaming garbage. And it must be rejected as such. Fundamentally, Islam and sharia are wildly incompatible with Western civilization, which is the offshoot of the ecumenical biblical inheritance. The history of Christian-Islamic relations tells a long and often bitter record of conflict, competition and occasional outright persecution. From the early centuries of Islamic expansionism all the way through modern times, the relationship between Christendom and the Islamic world has rarely been tranquil.
We can go at least as far back as the Crusades. The Crusades are frequently caricatured as unprovoked Christian aggression. In reality, they were a complex response to conquests that, in the first centuries of Islam, had already overtaken large swaths of historically Christian (and, in the case of the Holy Land, Jewish) territory. These campaigns were at least as much about reclaiming conquered territory as they were about imperialist religious zeal.
Fast-forward a few centuries to the 17th-century Battle of Vienna, when the expansionist ambitions of the Ottoman Empire brought Islamic armies to the very gates of Central Europe. The successful defense of Vienna marked a turning point, halting further Ottoman advance into the heart of European Christendom. This was not merely a geopolitical victory but a civilizational one too — a triumph for the Bible over sharia. This pattern persisted into the early modern era. The First and Second Barbary Wars — often relegated to footnotes in American history classrooms — were direct confrontations with North African Muslim pirates who enslaved, pillaged and extracted unjust tributes from Western nations. To this day, the well-known U.S. Marines’ Hymn references these conflicts in its early reference to the “shores of Tripoli.” These early-republic standoffs between Americans and Muslim African pirates are part of our national lore.
Nor is this just ancient history. The atrocities of 9/11 were carried out in the name of an Islamist ideology that draws explicitly on Islamic holy texts and traditions. The same is true of the 2009 Fort Hood Massacre, the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting, the Bourbon Street Massacre of Jan. 1, 2025, and countless other jihadist attacks in the homeland just since 9/11. To dismiss such acts as somehow wholly unrelated to Islam, as Carlson and his fellow propagandists do, is to lie and deceive — to engage in their very own form of taqiyya.
And today, in places like Nigeria, the violence continues. Islamist groups such as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province have targeted Christian communities with horrifying brutality — church burnings, kidnappings, rapes and mass killings. Overall, 93% of the estimated 4,849 Christians murdered worldwide for their faith in 2025 were killed by Islamist fanatics.
Carlson’s insidious project reflects a broader confusion on the Right about where Christianity’s natural religious alliance lies. The answer is not Islam but Judaism — the original monotheistic faith from which Christianity itself first emerged. The Hebrew Scriptures are the overwhelming core of Christianity’s Old Testament. The moral, ethical, legal and political continuity between the two religions is profound.
The historical record between Christianity and Islam is contentious and often tragic. And that makes sense: The biblical worldview and the sharia supremacist worldview are incompatible with one another. To gaslight to the contrary and pretend otherwise, regardless of the motive, is an act of profound intellectual dishonesty — and cowardice to boot.
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I stopped watching Fox News and all TV news programming in 2008 when Obama was selected, so I never saw Carlson’s show. I did view a clip or two that were posted here, but I was never a follower, and I don’t do any social media sites.
I see
“Josh Hammer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center,...”
Shillman, huh ?
i have no love for moslems (they should all be deported from the West) but to have these people who have been overwhelming promoting secularism and against Christianity ever since they got here, ... well I am just not believing their sudden White Knighting for Christianity.
I just posted this in the other thread as it has 7 million + views on YouTube and is topping a lot of algorithms lately. It’s Jewish-American travelogger Drew Binsky’s travels through Iran earlier last year (just before Operation Midnight Hammer.)
The country is clearly set up to do well once the chaos settles. The young people speak perfect English too. There are a lot of diverse frames of mind depicted...In Iran alone ther are Kurds, Arabs, etc...And they’re obviously not all in lock step.
https://youtu.be/RsRRa9MAEdc?si=Zl8aCRkEo1ZNWv9_
Let him go to Tehran and preach his love of Shia to the people in the streets.
And whether they’re old or young the one thing the Iranians in Drew’s video have in common is their faces light up when they realize they’re in the presence of an American...Most have never encountered one, and they shower him with gifts and free meals.
I stopped watching Fox News and all TV news programming in 2008 when Obama was selected, so I never saw Carlson’s show. I did view a clip or two that were posted here, but I was never a follower, and I don’t do any social media sites.So, are you saying that you have no dog in this fight? Or are you saying that you are totally unqualified to proffer an opinion on this matter? Or are you saying that you find this topic unimportant / boring?
Because it seems kind of strange to inject yourself into a thread only to immediately disqualify yourself from participation.
Regards,
Even in the "old days," he had a few mannerisms and vocal inflections I found affected or pretentious. In particular his overwrought / open-mouthed "dumb-founded looks" seemed pretty silly to me.
But since he has become a "Defender of the Faith (of Islam)," he has lost every particle of credibility in my book.
(Actually, it began with his criticisms of President Trump.)
Regards,
“Recently, Carlson has repeatedly taken to praising sharia law”
Islamic Law is a Law of Rape. We have seen that work out in the UK with the Muslim Grooming Gangs raping tens if not hundreds of thousand of white girls.
This horror has been going on since the beginning of Islam. Further background information at the link.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2024/6/rape-is-resistance
Way back when machine....mid 60’s history class, I was taught by a man with a “pbk key”, that Mohammedanism was spread through the sword, and not through peace.
I have been in other parts of the world, where you would that there were not these little snots ruining a good visit!
Are you the moderator of this site, or just a noxious personality? I've been here 28 years and am not aware of a rule that says I can't make a general comment on a Tucker Carlson thread about not ever having seen Tucker Carlson's show on Fox or followed him, without being attacked for it. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. It's not necessary for you to read anything else into it. Are you looking for a conspiracy theory or what?
"Anti Jew Sharia Carlson says: No president should mock Islam")
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