Tucker Carlson Says He Used to Criticize Islam, but Now He Sees the Light

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Tucker Carlson Says He Used to Criticize Islam, but Now He Sees the Light

Is he being honest about his prior statements?

June 26, 2026 by Robert Spencer

Tucker Carlson has issued a mea culpa, but not the one he needs to issue. The Clash Report reported Thursday that the newly antisemitic news personality “publicly disavowed his previous hostile statements regarding Islam and issued a sharp critique of Donald Trump’s foreign policy record.” Yet what Carlson actually offered was a parade of straw men. He misrepresented his own previous comments, and then went on to misrepresent the U.S. conflict with Iran and the state of Israel as well. Carlson clearly thinks that there is nothing he can say or do that will result in him losing his massive audience.

“Many times I said on television,” Carlson said Thursday, “‘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. No, that’s not true. Nothing about that is true, but I believed it.”

I can’t say that I’ve seen more than a handful of Tucker Carlson’s shows, at best, but I can nevertheless state categorically and with one-hundred percent certainty that 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 is 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.

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[mountaineer]

It took only a few million dollars in Qatari funds to change his mind, because he's a really deep thinker.

[Wingnut]

A convert.  Bought and Paid for. 

[Cyber Liberty]

"The light" looks a lot like all the zeroes on the checks he gets from Qatar!