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“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America,” Charlie Kirk tweeted. It was typical of the bold incisive rhetoric that terrified and infuriated the Left. And got him killed.

It was also the kind of direct truth that few on the right were willing to speak out loud.

Charlie Kirk continued to discuss our reporting on the Islamic genocide against Christians at a time when hardly anyone else would. And with his death, one of the most prominent voices still willing to challenge the Islamic invasion of America and its war on the world was silenced.

“Did you know 125,000 Christians have been murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed by Muslims in Nigeria in the last 15 years? Weird how that never gets any attention. Wonder why,” Charlie Kirk tweeted while linking to our Front Page Magazine article on the African genocide.

Not only are there far too few prominent figures on the right still willing to discuss the Muslim murder of Christians, but some of the most vocal voices laying claim to Charlie’s legacy, like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, claim to care about Christians, but refuse to discuss Islamic violence and appear to spend most of their time promoting Islamic propaganda instead.

“Islam is not compatible with western civilization,” Charlie Kirk tweeted in June of this year.

Tucker Carlson had a very different perspective, arguing that Sharia law was great and leads to a wonderful society where “the rape rate is zero.”

“I remember after 9/11 when I was like, you know, all about attacking Islam,” Tucker said, recanting his past criticism of Islam. “I knew nothing about Islam. I’m not Muslim, by the way.”

Then he praised the idea of submitting to Allah.

While Charlie Kirk stood up to Islam, Tucker Carlson submitted to it.

Much of the recent focus has been on Tucker Carlson’s comments about Israel, but that’s putting things in the wrong order. Before Tucker began attacking Israel, he had begun praising Islam and the Muslim oil tyrannies funding the subversion of America. His subsequent defenses of Hamas and Hezbollah proceeded from that, not from ‘antisemitism’ or any interest in Israel.

Tucker Carlson doesn’t hate Jews. He just says whatever the Saudis, Qataris and other wealthy Muslim tyrannies want to hear, whether it’s praising their rulers or defending Islamic terrorists.

At the beginning of 2025, Tucker claimed that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf were a “glimpse of what the future holds” and urged his listeners to follow him to the Muslim dictatorship where churches were banned and which had supplied the hijackers who carried out 9/11.

“I’ve spent a lot of time in the Gulf. I think it’s one of the most amazing places on planet Earth,” Tucker gushed. And for a guy who once claimed to embrace the MAGA movement (before texting, “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and “I hate him passionately”) Tucker really was spending a whole lot of his time abroad in the Muslim world.

Charlie Kirk described the Saudis more succinctly and accurately as “a group of radical Islamist Bedouin tribes that struck liquid gold”.

But Tucker Carlson wasn’t just playing tourist, he was pandering to Muslim tyrants.

Tucker returned to Dubai and lavished shameless praise on the UAE’s tyrant as a “wise leader unlike any other president I have met.”

That would presumably include President Trump.

“I have spoken to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan several times, and I have never heard a world leader speak with such humility and wisdom,” Tucker Carlson flattered.

After 9/11, Rudy Giuliani had sent Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal packing and rejected his $10 million check. Tucker Carlson however sat down for another fawning interview with Alwaleed in which he agreed that monarchy was better than democracy.

There was hardly an oil-rich Muslim dictator whom Tucker Carlson didn’t laud as the greatest.

“Sheikh Mohammed, the Prime Minister of Qatar, is a good man. He’s a special guy. He really is. And he really cares,” Tucker Carlson assured his audience. And the Qataris, who funded the Muslim Brotherhood, and harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11? “They’re good, decent people.”

Charlie Kirk believed that, “Islam is not compatible with western civilization” while Tucker Carlson appeared to believe that Islam was superior to western civilization. Just as significant as what Tucker was talking about, the greatness of the Muslim world, were the things  he was not talking about. The mass arrests of protesters against the Islamization of the UK were a major agenda item for Turning Point UK, but were invisible to those listening to Tucker.

Charlie Kirk had called out Islam as a threat to America and a Christian future while Tucker’s pandering to Islam was a betrayal of America, Christianity and all of western civilization.

After losing his FOX News show and being forced to find a new business model, Tucker Carlson switched from attacking Islam to praising it. In 2019, Muslim Advocates had demanded that FOX News fire Tucker for his “Islamophobic” attacks against Rep. Ilhan Omar. In 2020, Tucker Carlson had mocked Biden for pandering to Muslims by praising the Koran.

Three years later, Tucker sounded just like Biden and so many other useful idiots did.

About the only time Tucker Carlson featured Islamic terrorism was to minimize or to deny its existence whether in Israel on Oct 7 or in America on 9/11. It’s not that Tucker didn’t know what was taking place. On his old FOX News show, Tucker had spoken forthrightly against Islam. On his new show, he pandered to Islam, praised Sharia and submission to Allah.

Could Charlie Kirk have profited from joining Tucker in pandering to Islam? No doubt.

But he refused to do it.

There was a time when Tucker Carlson stood up to Islam, but that time is long past. Tucker wants to take Charlie’s legacy, but lacks his courage. Contrary to what Barack Obama and Tucker Carlson tell us, the future will not belong to those who submit to Islam, but those why defy it. Even when they are murdered, the courage of those who defy Islam lives on while the cowardice of those who submit to it destroys everything else that they do.

Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson both in their own way showed us that we all have a choice between courage and cowardice, between standing on our feet and getting on our knees, between strength and submission.