Sam Harris on Tucker Carlson's views on Islam

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]I found an old appearance of yours on the Tucker Carson show.

[00:00:04]>> The irony for me has always been that, you know, if the jihadists ever took power in this country, the first people who' be rounded up and executed, probably slowly, uh, would be liberals, would be secularists, would be gays, would be the very same people who are always making excuses for radical Islam.

[00:00:18]>> You won't hear Tucker saying that now.

[00:00:20]>> Now he's casating Trump as the antichrist for criticizing Islam or disrespecting, you know, the Muslim God, right? We can talk about Tucker. Tucker is a deeply weird person. It's very hard to predict what his politics will be from one week to the next. The America first wing of the MAGA cult has broken with the president on this issue. The president at least nominally or you know at least you know functionally most of the time is still staking his claim defending the West against Islamism and jihadism. Right? I don't know that he has more than two sentences in his head to describe that project. But his bias seems to be we don't want any more of these people coming from hole countries. That's not the way to say it.

[00:00:58]That's not even the way to think it.

[00:00:59]That doesn't track the real problem. But at least that is functionally tracking the issue of we should want to know who's coming into our country and we don't want any more jihadis, you know, >> which you agree with.

[00:01:11]>> Absolutely. Yeah.