Why is the following here? Because almost everyone I’ve ever known or listened to for any amount of time is locked into utter rubbish such as, conservatives are ____________, and they follow a person, or persons, like sheep, right over the precipice to the rocks below.

Convinced certain people are a certain way. Like them. Like they’ve been told — fed — to believe. After a while, the following of certain individuals and their beliefs becomes ingrained. Idol worship. Even when denied. Millions follow. Even as the veneer cracks and the inner muck and dreck and darkness oozes out.

People are indoctrinated to believe conservatives are this, and liberals are that, and American political beliefs are what is uppermost. Even when I have heard professed Christians deny that they serve the world, the American political system more than they serve the LORD Jesus Christ.

First, where is the discernment of who is and who is not a true Christ follower?

By their fruits you will know them.

No matter what they may have said or written in the past. What comes from their tongues, which reveals what is truly in their hearts?

Too many people are followers of other people pretending to be followers of Jesus, Yeshua.

Too many people refuse to think. Think critically. Discern. Discern well and rightly.

Sucked in. Deluded.

Becoming like those they have placed their faith in for so long. To the point they are in such a pit of darkness that they can no longer see.

Be careful what you hear. What you read. What you see. What you truly believe.

For the spiritual war has escalated in these last of the last days as in no other time except the days of Noah.

Each individual who professes with their lips to be a child of God, a born again believer, a Christ follower must, in times such as this, build for themselves, FOR THEMSELVES, NOT THINKING SOMEONE ELSE WILL BUILD IT, an ark of protection in the great thunderings, lightenings and storm brewing.

A godly ark built of the right material. GOD’S INERRANT, INFALLIBLE, UNCHANGEABLE, ETERNAL, LIVING & ACTIVE WORD. A daily life built with that which will not decay, will not mold, is resistant to the attacks of the insects, those little creatures crawling about doing the bidding of their master, Satan, serving his insatiable appetite to distract, deceive, and destroy.

Going to a church every Sunday isn’t what it’s about.

Being on a church committee isn’t what it’s about.

Being a Republican an American isn’t what it’s about.

Being a member of a church, a worldly organization, isn’t what it’s about.

It’s all about, only about what truly is an individual’s relationship with, and understanding of Jesus.

Period.

That is impossible without knowing Him more and more daily, hearing His voice, and being in His Word daily.

Not mired in the words of any man or woman. And mired is how most folks are. Weighed down by the dung of the world, which they refuse to see is dung because they like someone, think they align with someone, have followed someone for years.

Until and unless, only following Jesus, an individual is utterly lost and remains in darkness, even when deluded, they are in the light.

For Satan himself and his ministers appear as angels of light. To deceive. To destroy. Death is their number one product. It begins with deception. Lies.

It ends in the eternal pit of hell.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Thursday, January 1st, 2026

 

 

The Masks Are Off

 

Carlson and Owens have become leading Western apologists for Islam.

 

December 31, 2025

By  

Reprinted from Frontpage Magazine

 

It was bad enough that ostensibly conservative political commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens both have been the main drivers of a growing divide in the MAGA movement, through their obsession with demonizing Israel and the Jews. Now they have also become leading Western apologists for Islam.

Are they even conservative? Were they ever? (Owens in particular has never been committed to anything but her own grift, not a political philosophy.) Conservatives are defenders; we preserve. Our mission, in large part, is to defend and preserve the liberties our forefathers earned for us. It is to defend and preserve the grand civilizational legacy of the best that has been thought and said. Progressives destroy; they are revolutionaries at heart, whose mission is to destroy the flawed status quo and pave the way for their utopian vision of an ideal society. By this standard, Carlson and Owens are not conservatives; they are destroyers, and the banner of conservatism they formerly flew has been exposed as a mere flag of convenience for them.

What has Owens, for example, built or preserved, apart from her own personal internet fiefdom? The sole focus of her work today seems to be to undermine and drain the surge of goodwill and momentum that fell to Turning Point USA after the heinous assassination of its founder Charlie Kirk, which Owens has lucratively exploited to weave in the antisemitic conspiracy theories that have made her a magnet for Jew-hating losers on the internet. Carlson, meanwhile, has also exploited the America First movement by demonizing Jews and Israel, going so far as to promote slimy white supremacist Nick “Hitler was cool” Fuentes (Carlson himself was recently named Antisemite of the Year by a Jewish civil rights group).

Lately he has shocked conservatives by completely dismissing Islam as a threat to the West: denying Hamas is a terrorist organization, defending sharia law, repeatedly defending Iran as no threat to America or American interests, and hyping wealthy Arab states as crime-free havens of modernization, morality, and sanity compared to Western decadence.

But his most recent, and arguably most outrageous, Islamophilic comments came in an interview published last Friday at The American Conservative, when he condemned what he claims is Right-wing hatred of Muslim Americans, declaring that “radical Islam” is not a problem for Americans. “I don’t know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who’s been killed by radical Islam,” he stated:

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. I see millions of Americans being destroyed, and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than OnlyFans? It’s not even close. Turning some huge percentage of American women into prostitutes. That’s not radical Islam doing that, actually.

This is such a poorly reasoned argument that one wonders how Carlson can ever be taken seriously as a political pundit. Two obvious flaws immediately come to mind. One is that Carlson is presenting a false choice: suggesting that because other societal ills exist, Islam can’t be a problem too. All of the issues Tucker lists are valid concerns – and so is Islam. How can anyone look at what has become of Europe, Australia, and Michigan thanks to mass Muslim immigration, and not accept that Islam is, as Charlie Kirk plainly put it, “incompatible with Western civilization”?

The other flaw is that Carlson says “radical Islam” is not a threat because it hasn’t killed any American he personally knows. That is his “lived reality” and that of everyone he has ever met, he says (“lived reality,” by the way, is a term which serves as a favorite tactic of the identity-politics Left to prioritize impressionistic, personal experience over empirical evidence and universal Truth).

This claim may or may not be true, because as we’ve seen with another Carlson psy-op, he has also denied knowing people like British activist Tommy Robinson, when there is abundant evidence that Carlson not only had spoken about Robinson publicly but even interviewed him.

In any case, it is shockingly willful blindness to pretend that because he doesn’t know the victims personally, the murders of Americans at the hands of jihadists either never happened or don’t matter because the victims weren’t part of his “lived reality.” To refresh his memory, here are merely a few notable examples:

  • The November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting by Nidal “Soldier of Allah” Hasan left 13 dead, including a pregnant woman (whose baby also died, making 14 victims);
  • The December 2, 2025 massacre of 14 at a San Bernardino holiday party, carried out by “ISIS-inspired” husband-and-wife team Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik;
  • The April 5, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing committed by Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Rolling Stone cover model Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which left 3 dead including an eight-year-old boy;
  • The June 12, 2016 Pulse gay nightclub shooting in which ISIS enthusiast Omar Mateen slaughtered 49.
  • Another ISIS devotee, Shamsud-din Jabar, plowed his vehicle through a Bourbon Street New Year’s crowd on January 1, 2025, killing 14.*

Those are just a few of the attacks on American soil with the highest body count, and those numbers do not include the wounded, whose “lived reality” was forever marred. But Carlson didn’t know the victims personally, so the attacks never happened.

Note also that Carlson intentionally excluded from his time frame the obvious example of the 9/11 attacks, which murdered 3000 people, almost all Americans. He knew that if he factored that in, his argument would be immediately nullified, so in effect he was dismissing those murders as well.

And that doesn’t even begin to address Carlson’s willful ignorance of the jihad being waged beyond America’s borders: the devastating Islamization of Europe which is fast eclipsing its Christian identity, the genocide of Christians being waged by Islamic “rebels” in Nigeria, and terror attacks in Australia. If Carlson thinks none of this matters because it’s not impacting most Americans personally, he is either stunningly naïve for a political pundit, in willful denial, or knowingly pushing propaganda. My money is on the latter.

Elsewhere in the interview Carlson condemns the Right for attacking Muslims collectively. He is “disgusted” by people who “think that every Muslim is Usama bin Laden.” This is a shamefully inflammatory accusation. No serious American is claiming that every Muslim is another bin Laden. This is the same kind of false argument Leftists insist on making: when the Right says “Islam,” the Left twists it into “all Muslims.” This rhetorical judo is an intentionally disingenuous tactic that enables the Left to pervert legitimate concerns about Islamic dogma into simple bigotry.

Add these interview comments to his screechy AmFest 2025 speech in which Carlson yelled that he found it “disgusting” that “millions of Americans” were being attacked simply for being Muslim (fact check: this is not happening), and it is undeniable that he is purposefully whitewashing jihad and sharia law, and running interference for the Islamic imperative to bring all of dar al-Harb, the “House of War,” into the fold of dar al-Islam.

What has happened to Carlson, who almost overnight went from being the Great White Hope of conservative media to a massive disappointment? Many say he is being paid off by his Qatar masters – he claims in this most recent interview that he has “never taken a penny from a Muslim” – but Carlson has never been hurting for money; surely greed, or greed alone, cannot account for his newfound love affair with Islam. A friend suggested to me, only half-joking, that perhaps Carlson is being blackmailed. That actually might explain the unhinged intensity of his defense of Muslims he claims are not a problem for Americans. I have my own theory, but that’s for another time.

In any case, seemingly referencing Carlson’s controversial interview in a tweet that same day, Candace Owens, whose unhinged but lucrative, conspiracy-mongering obsessions include waging a bizarre campaign to expose the French President’s wife as a man, posted,

No matter how hard the GOP tries to make “radical Islam” happen, the base doesn’t care about it. We are way more concerned about Israel. You can deny reality and scream about Tucker, but the party can no longer be governed by those who refuse to acknowledge the Zionist elephant in the room.

Again, two things to note here. First, the Republican party is not trying to make the threat of Islam “happen”; Islamic supremacists the world over are doing a damn good job of making it happen all on their own, and have been for 1400 years. The Right is not hyping this threat out of proportion to reality; if anything, the Republican Party does not take it seriously enough to take effective action such as the basic first step of officially declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group.

Second, note how Owens claims that she represents the GOP “base.” She does not. What she does represent, and is empowering, is a growing segment of the Right which hates Jews more than it cares about the existential danger of Islam. They are “way more concerned about Israel” because Owens has done more than even Fuentes to fan the flames of the longstanding antisemitic trope that “the Jooz” run everything. Owens’ army believes, as all antisemites do, that jihadists only attack American interests because we support Israel and because Jewish influence runs Washington, D.C.; if that ended, they claim, Muslims would no longer have any incentive to attack us. There could not be a more willful historical ignorance.

Carlson’s and Owens’ total dismissal of Islam as an existential threat to America and the West is in complete contradiction to the prominence it has been given by solidly conservative influencers and activists like Allie Beth Stuckey and the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk. Stuckey posted on X a couple of months ago, “I asked my 840k Instagram followers (mostly Christian women) what their biggest concern is for the country right now, and by FAR the most common answer is the growing influence of Islam. I’d like to see this concern reflected in the GOP asap.” So would I.

Kirk famously noted in recent months that Islam is incompatible with the West, and that “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.” Now it’s the sword that the antisemitic, woke “Right” is using, too.

For better or worse (and it’s both), we live in a social media-driven political arena in which the subversive lies, conspiracy-mongering, and propaganda that Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens spew matters. Their combined following on X alone numbers nearly 25 million. Their podcast episodes rack up millions of views each. Everything they say or post becomes a flashpoint of political controversy. They cannot be ignored, and must not be; the No-Enemies-on-the-Right game plan that some conservatives argue is the only way to win is actually a losing strategy, as well as a morally reprehensible one. Carlson and Owens, and their mob of supporters, must be countered with full-throated condemnation from conservatives who care about the flourishing not only of America but of Western civilization at large – because those are the stakes.

* The mainstream media habit of describing jihadists as “ISIS-inspired” begs the question they refuse to address: What exactly inspires ISIS? Hint: it’s in the name “Islamic State.”

Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior.