RIGHT SPEAK: The Masks Are Off: Carlson and Owens Have Become Leading Western Apologists for Islam

The Masks Are Off:

Carlson and Owens have become leading Western apologists for Islam.

It was bad enough that ostensibly conservative political commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens both have been the main drivers of a growing divide in the MAGA movement, through their obsession with demonizing Israel and the Jews. Now they have also become leading Western apologists for Islam.
Are they even conservative? Were they ever? (Owens in particular has never been committed to anything but her own grift, not a political philosophy.) Conservatives are defenders; we preserve. Our mission, in large part, is to defend and preserve the liberties our forefathers earned for us. It is to defend and preserve the grand civilizational legacy of the best that has been thought and said. Progressives destroy; they are revolutionaries at heart, whose mission is to destroy the flawed status quo and pave the way for their utopian vision of an ideal society. By this standard, Carlson and Owens are not conservatives; they are destroyers, and the banner of conservatism they formerly flew has been exposed as a mere flag of convenience for them.

What has Owens, for example, built or preserved, apart from her own personal internet fiefdom? The sole focus of her work today seems to be to undermine and drain the surge of goodwill and momentum that fell to Turning Point USA after the heinous assassination of its founder Charlie Kirk, which Owens has lucratively exploited to weave in the antisemitic conspiracy theories that have made her a magnet for Jew-hating losers on the internet. Carlson, meanwhile, has also exploited the America First movement by demonizing Jews and Israel, going so far as to promote slimy white supremacist Nick “Hitler was cool” Fuentes (Carlson himself was recently named Antisemite of the Year by a Jewish civil rights group).

Lately he has shocked conservatives by completely dismissing Islam as a threat to the West: denying Hamas is a terrorist organization, defending sharia law, repeatedly defending Iran as no threat to America or American interests, and hyping wealthy Arab states as crime-free havens of modernization, morality, and sanity compared to Western decadence.

But his most recent, and arguably most outrageous, Islamophilic comments came in an interview published last Friday at The American Conservative, when he condemned what he claims is Right-wing hatred of Muslim Americans, declaring that “radical Islam” is not a problem for Americans. “I don’t know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who’s been killed by radical Islam,” he stated:

I do know a lot of people who have killed themselves. I know people who’ve died of drug ODs, more than a few. I know people who can’t get jobs. None of the boys in my daughter’s class can get jobs, none of those white boys can get jobs. They’re being destroyed by Adderall and video games and porn. I see millions of Americans being destroyed, and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than OnlyFans? It’s not even close. Turning some huge percentage of American women into prostitutes. That’s not radical Islam doing that, actually.

This is such a poorly reasoned argument that one wonders how Carlson can ever be taken seriously as a political pundit. Two obvious flaws immediately come to mind. One is that Carlson is presenting a false choice: suggesting that because other societal ills exist, Islam can’t be a problem too. All of the issues Tucker lists are valid concerns – and so is Islam. How can anyone look at what has become of Europe, Australia, and Michigan thanks to mass Muslim immigration, and not accept that Islam is, as Charlie Kirk plainly put it, “incompatible with Western civilization”?

The other flaw is that Carlson says “radical Islam” is not a threat because it hasn’t killed any American he personally knows. That is his “lived reality” and that of everyone he has ever met, he says (“lived reality,” by the way, is a term which serves as a favorite tactic of the identity-politics Left to prioritize impressionistic, personal experience over empirical evidence and universal Truth).

This claim may or may not be true, because as we’ve seen with another Carlson psy-op, he has also denied knowing people like British activist Tommy Robinson, when there is abundant evidence that Carlson not only had spoken about Robinson publicly but even interviewed him.
In any case, it is shockingly willful blindness to pretend that because he doesn’t know the victims personally, the murders of Americans at the hands of jihadists either never happened or don’t matter because the victims weren’t part of his “lived reality.” To refresh his memory, here are merely a few notable examples --->READ MORE HERE