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 intention 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. --->READ MORE HERE
Perhaps the only thing worse than Tucker Carlson’s deranged understanding of history is his deranged understanding of theology.
“The people in charge don’t want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus,” the Iranian regime’s top fanboy recently tweeted, later noting that this was why President Donald Trump’s meme “depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran.”
Indeed, Jesus is a prophet in Islam. In the Hadith, Muhammad promises that when Jesus returns, He will “break the cross” and establish Islam as the sole faith of the world. The Iranian “president” loves a Jesus that not only doesn’t exist in Christianity but promises to destroy it. This seems like useful context.
That’s a theological position. Shia extremists in Iran aren’t the only people who reject a messianic Jesus, after all. But if the Iranian rulers have such high esteem for Jesus, why is conversion or proselytization of Christianity an apostasy punishable by death? Numerous fatwas issued by Iranian clerics, including one from the recently retired “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, impose the death penalty on any males and life imprisonment on women who reject Islam.
Preaching the Gospels is considered a “deviant educational” activity in Carlson’s beloved Iran. And because Christianity is gaining popularity underground, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard regularly raids the homes and churches, often arbitrarily arresting and sometimes torturing their prey. In 2023, the regime imprisoned 96 Christians, 22 of them getting 43-year sentences apiece. All of them were convicted of theological crimes.
One wonders if the Armenian and Assyrian Christians of Iran are more offended by puerile and offensive memes from American leaders than by life in an Iranian prison.
The Islamic Republic isn’t unique in its view of apostasy. Afghanistan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Sudan, and many others maintain legal penalties for apostasy, which include proselytization and conversion. In most Islamic nations, importing Christian Bibles, for instance, is illegal or comes with severe restrictions. --->READ MORE HERE
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