Is he sure?
Like his curious counterpart, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson wants you to relax. When asked in an interview published Saturday about a TPUSA poll showing that AmFest ranked “radical Islam” as the greatest threat to America, Carlson responded in a way that is becoming habitual for him: he blamed the Jews. At the same time, he downplayed the idea that there was much of any threat coming from Islam, radical or otherwise, at all.
The claim that there is such a threat, Carlson claimed, “comes from the Israeli government and its many defenders and informal employees in the United States, of course.” Carlson didn’t explain whether he thought that the Israeli government had actually masterminded the jihad attacks that have taken place in the United States in recent years, faking the entire thing, or was just exaggerating the threat those attacks represented for its own purposes. Unfortunately, he wasn’t asked.
Instead, Carlson went on to downplay the jihad threat by relating it to his personal experience:
I mean, I don’t know how they responded to the poll. I don’t know who answered it, but I believe in measuring reality a little more empirically. And I don’t know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who’s been killed by radical Islam. 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.
Giving the devil his due, I would be remiss if I didn’t note that Carlson’s point here has been widely misrepresented. He did not claim that there have been no Americans killed in jihad attacks over the last 24 years. He just said that he didn’t know anyone personally who was killed in a jihad attack, and was trying to give the impression that this meant that such attacks are vanishingly rare, and that there are a great many problems that are more pressing.
What Carlson doesn’t acknowledge, and likely does not know, is that the threat from “radical Islam” that he downplays is much bigger than he thinks, for it is not actually “radical” at all, but quite mainstream. All the major sects of Islam and schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach that Muslims must wage war against non-Muslims and subjugate them under the hegemony of Islamic law. This is not a “hijacking” of Islam or the twisted view of a tiny sect; whether or not any individual Muslim acts upon it, it is a central teaching of the dominant strains of Islam. --->READ MORE HERE
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A political and media firestorm has erupted around Tucker Carlson after he claimed no Americans have been killed by radical Islam in the past 24 years. The remark sparked immediate backlash online and within conservative circles, with fact-checkers citing over 100 deaths from Islamist attacks since 2009, including Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Pulse nightclub massacre. Republican Congressman Randy Fine and media personality Laura Loomer strongly condemned Carlson, while Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene defended him. The controversy spilled onto the stage at Turning Point USA, where Ben Shapiro publicly attacked Carlson, deepening an open rift inside the MAGA movement.
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