Tucker Carlson: I Was Wrong About Islam, It’s Great

Tucker Carlson has been praising Sharia law and criticizing capitalism and democratic liberalism for a while. Now he calls out the “hysteria” about Islamism.

Sky News:  We felt a little bit of that after 9/11, when people bought the lies about nine… There were many lies about 9/11, but the net result was to convince Americans that they were under siege from global Islam, that there were a billion people trying to kill them. I felt this way myself, and many times I said on television, “The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. Like, they all wanna kill us. They’re all crazy. They’re all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century.” And I believed that. I, I was hysterical. I believed that. Now, that’s not true. Nothing about that is true, but I believed it. (X.)

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Tucker has found a new group to be hysterical about, and it’s the Jews.

Tucker Carlson claims he used to say Muslims ‘all want to kill us, they’re all crazy,’ but no longer believes it

 By Robert Spencer,  June 25, 2026:

Tucker Carlson never actually said “The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They’re all crazy. They’re all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century.”

Tucker Carlson is committing the all too common fallacy of conflating Islam and Muslims. In reality, to say that there are problems with Islam, or even that “the problem with Islam,” doesn’t say anything about “all Muslims,” because there are degrees of knowledge of the religion and commitment to it among Muslims, just as there are among adherents of all religions. No serious analyst ever says “all Muslims want to kill us,” or that all the members of any group want to do anything. If Tucker Carlson had ever said on his Fox show or anywhere else that “all Muslims want to kill us,” he would have been the object of screaming headlines, excoriating him for his “Islamophobia” and demanding that he retract, apologize, end his show, and do various forms of public penance such as visiting a mosque or chatting with officials of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). None of that ever happened, because Tucker never said this.

Also, those of us who did dare to point out that Islam had doctrines of warfare against unbelievers were smeared, defamed, marginalized, deplatformed, and silenced. If Tucker Carlson had said this, which we were accused of saying but that none of us ever actually said, he would never have been allowed to continue to occupy his massive platform.

Compounding Tucker Carlson’s dishonesty here is the fact that he is also making claims about Islam and dismissing those claims as “hysterical,” and will never allow anyone who believes that there is a problem with Islam, or that the problem is Islam, onto his show to discuss it with him. He is, of course, free to feature anyone he wants, but his is not exactly a platform for open and honest discussion of the relevant issues that will allow for opinions that differ from those that Tucker Carlson holds. That also is his right, but when he makes sweeping claims that are false, as he does here, he does his audience an even greater disservice than usual. What about the Qur’an’s violent teachings? What about Islam’s doctrines of conquest and subjugation? Do they simply not exist now because Tucker Carlson says they’re hysterical?

Unfortunately, the jihadis are not uncomfortable with this particular brand of hysteria, and will keep advancing, no matter what Tucker Carlson says.

Tucker Carlson:

Many times I said on television, "The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They're all crazy. They're all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century." And I believed that.

I was hysterical. I believed that.… pic.twitter.com/z0if7Aypr6

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 25, 2026

“Tucker Carlson Retracts Past Rhetoric on Islam, Condemns Trump Over Iran,” Clash Report, June 25, 2026:

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on Thursday publicly disavowed his previous hostile statements regarding Islam and issued a sharp critique of Donald Trump’s foreign policy record.

Carlson characterized his own past rhetoric as hysterical and explicitly retracted his claims that Muslims belonged to a suicide cult.

The remarks signal a significant ideological shift for the prominent media figure.

Carlson stated that he previously believed and propagated the idea that Islam was the primary threat to the West.

He admitted to frequently claiming on television that Muslims wanted to kill Americans and were part of a lunatic cult.

He now rejects these statements entirely.

“Nothing about that is true, but I believed it,” Carlson said. He described his former mindset as hysterical and acknowledged the falsehood of his previous assertions….

Carlson offered a stark condemnation of current Israeli government actions, arguing they contradict the foundational principles of Western civilization.

He accused Israel of abandoning individual justice in favor of an evil standard of blood guilt.

He rejected the premise that defending Western civilization requires defending Israel.

Instead, Carlson asserted that his opposition to Israeli policies stems directly from his commitment to Western values.

He added that the modern state of Israel bears no resemblance to the country he first visited decades ago….