TheBlaze's Allie Beth Stuckey on Tucker Carlson: “I don’t know what’s going on in his head”
Stuckey: “There is not a single person that is soft-pedaling Islam that is not trying to get you to blame Israel and the Jews for all of your problems and all of America’s problems”
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From the June 29, 2026, edition of TheBlaze's Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
ALLIE BETH STUCKEY (HOST): Especially on Tucker Carlson’s show, this just seems to happen a lot. You know, I don’t know what’s going on in his head or his guest’s head, and I’m not going to guess, like, what’s going on in their hearts. But I will just say, like, in general, I will tell you what I think about why there are some people on the right that are like, “Actually, you know, it’s not Islam. They’re not that bad.”
They don’t talk about what’s going on in Nigeria. They don’t talk about what’s going on in Uganda. They don’t talk about what is going on in almost every single Muslim majority when it comes to the nightmare of living as a Christian in these places. And I say nightmare, not to take away the hope and the joy that they have in Christ because these Christians persecuted there absolutely have that. But when it comes to the physical torment of seeing your children kidnapped and enslaved and harmed. Like, that is a nightmare that most of us living here in America, by the grace of God, have not had to endure. I can’t even imagine. I have three episodes at least recently that we’ve done specifically on the persecution that is happening in these countries at the hands of these Muslim terrorists. The Christian mothers who have watched their babies beheaded and kidnapped and sold into slavery. This is not something that just happened in the Ottoman Empire hundreds of years ago. This is something that is happening today at the hands of Muslims to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
So why in the world -- if the important thing to you is the preservation of the church, and the preservation of Christian history, and Christian artifacts, and the preservation of the integrity of Christianity? Why in the world would you even ostensibly be linking arms with these powers? You would be calling this out and saying, “You know, what's really scary that we actually have Muslim politicians here who are talking about the undermining and destruction of the United States.” And they’re not only Muslim politicians, it’s these far-left progressives of all different religious stripes.
But you would think that there would be more people in the right warning about that. It’s something that the right has been doing for a very long time. This very recent about-face, let me tell you what’s behind it. It's got to do with Israel. OK? It has to do with Israel. It has to do with, I believe, people who have Israel derangement syndrome. OK? And they see Israel in everything. They see the Jews behind everything. I heard Jeremy Boreing word it as like, “The Jews are always waiting in the wings of people’s imaginations when they’re looking for a scapegoat, when they’re looking for someone to blame.” And that’s like a paraphrasing of something that Jeremy said, but it really stuck with me. “Waiting in the wings of people’s imaginations when people are looking for a scapegoat.” That’s a pretty incredible way to word it.
The reality is -- you know, I get messages about this all the time. “Israel’s doing this. Israel’s doing that. They’re so terrible.” I have no reason whatsoever to agree with all of Israel’s policies or to say, “Rah, rah. Yes, Israel is like the -- The current modern-day Israel is the center of the impending apocalypse.” Like, I’m not a dispensationalist. I don’t have the same theological view of Israel as a lot of Baptists do. I have a much more pragmatic view of why they are a greater ally in the region than other countries there.
And I also just have this logical problem with people trying to turn a blind eye to what is happening against Christians at the hands of Islam in order to direct all of our ire towards the Jews and towards Israel. It’s just strange. There is not a single person that is soft-pedaling Islam that is not trying to get you to blame Israel and the Jews for all of your problems and all of America’s problems. OK? This is not an isolated thing.