Tucker Carlson Slams Fears Of ‘Radical Islam,’ Blames Israel | EUROtoday

Tucker Carlson stated that fears of “radical Islam” within the United States are wildly overblown and blamed Israel for fomenting fears about Muslims in an interview revealed Friday.

“I don’t know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who’s been killed by radical Islam,” the previous Fox News host instructed The American Conservative, presumably alluding to the assaults of Sept 11, 2001.

“I do know a lot of people who have killed themselves,” he continued. “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.”

He went on to counsel that the OnlyFans platform is an even bigger hazard than so-called radical Islam, claiming it’s “turning some huge percentage of American women into prostitutes.”

“That’s not radical Islam doing that, actually,” he stated. “So anyone who believes that lie, I feel sorry for. But it doesn’t reflect the lived reality of anyone I’ve ever met in the United States.”

Calling himself a “close observer,” he added, “I just think that that’s insane.”

Carlson’s remarks got here in response to the outcomes of a straw ballot performed at a Turning Point USA convention earlier this month. Attendees of the conservative occasion had been requested what they thought of the best risk dealing with the United States, and the main response was “radical Islam.” In the brand new interview, Carlson was requested the place he thinks “those sentiments” come from.

“It comes from the Israeli government and its many defenders and informal employees in the United States, of course,” he replied.

In past years, however, Carlson himself has stoked fears of Islam. In 2017, he said that “violent terrorism” was an “inevitability in Europe” because “there are a lot more Muslims living in Europe now.”

Yet, more recently, he has condemned Islamophobia, calling it “disgusting” during a speech of his own at the Turning Point USA conference.

Carlson’s new comments proved polarizing to the right. Some critics on social media accused him of glossing over acts of terrorism committed by Muslim extremists in the U.S. since 9/11, including the Boston marathon bombing and the Pulse nightclub shooting. Meghan McCain mocked him, quipping, “We’re like 3 months away from Tucker Carlson telling everyone you’re a warmonger neocon if you don’t convert to Islam.”

Others supported him, including former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who posted a photo of herself with Carlson and wrote, “I’ve seen a bunch of America Last accounts attacking Tucker so I’m making it clear that I’m proudly friends with Tucker Carlson.”