Tucker Carlson's Qatar Glow-Up: Shilling for a Sharia State While Smearing the Holy Land

 

When "America First" Means Qatar First. Tucker's Selective Facts on Christians Expose a Dangerous Agenda

Tucker Carlson, the self-styled truth-teller who built his brand on calling out elites and foreign entanglements, has a new obsession: convincing his audience that Qatar treats Christians better than Israel. In a viral clip from his December 2025 show – filmed amid his cozy visits to Doha and chats with Palestinian refugees – Tucker drops "mind-blowing" stats: Twice as many Christians in Qatar as Israel, plus "so many churches" on government land. He repeats twice, "Not promoting Qatar," like a bad liar winking at the camera.

Per @TuckerCarlson, Christians have it better in Qatar than Israel.

The truth? There are 2x as many Christians in Qatar (~400K vs 188K), but they're almost all migrant workers.

Despite Tucker's claim of "so many Christian churches in Qatar," there are SIX. Total. For 400K… pic.twitter.com/iQLPzbYqcc

— Joel Mowbray (@joelmowbray) December 12, 2025

Sorry, Tucker, but actions scream louder than disclaimers – especially when you're buying property there and platforming its narrative while demonizing America's longtime ally.
Let's fact-check Tucker's cherry-picked monologue, because the full picture paints Qatar as a performative "tolerant" autocracy and Israel as a genuine (if imperfect) democracy for Christians.The Numbers Game: Quantity vs. QualityTucker boasts Qatar has ~400,000 Christians vs. Israel's ~180,000-188,000. Technically accurate but wildly misleading.
Qatar's Christians are almost entirely migrant workers from the Philippines, India, and Africa, trapped in the notorious kafala sponsorship system. Human Rights Watch and others have called it "modern-day slavery": passports confiscated, abysmal wages, dangerous conditions (remember the World Cup deaths?), and easy deportation for complaining.
These folks aren't in Qatar because it's a Christian paradise, they're there for economic survival, with no path to citizenship or real rights.
In Israel? ~80% of Christians are Arab citizens with full voting rights, military service options, and representation in the Knesset. They live freely alongside Jewish and Muslim neighbors, with access to ancient holy sites.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – one of over 400 Christian sites in Israel, open to all.

Churches: Six in a Gated Compound vs. Hundreds Freely ScatteredTucker gushes about Qatar's "so many Christian churches" on government-granted land. Reality check: Exactly six churches, all crammed into one surveilled compound in Mesaimeer (aka "Church City"). No crosses on exteriors, ID checks at entry to block Qatari Muslims, and proselytizing banned (punishable by imprisonment or deportation).Qatari citizens? Conversion from Islam is illegal – up to life in prison. Officially, zero Christian citizens.
Israel? Over 400 Christian sites and active churches, from ancient wonders like the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to dozens of evangelical and Baptist congregations (17 Baptists alone beat Qatar's total). Freedom House scores Israel's religious freedom at ~3.5/4; Qatar's? ~1.5/4. USCIRF reports highlight Qatar's "systematic discrimination."

Qatar's Six in a Gated Compound

Qatar's Tightly Regulated Church Compound

Tucker's ISIS strawman? No beheadings, sure but Bibles censored, services monitored, and apostasy criminalized. Qatar's "tolerance" is PR for expat stability and World Cup optics, not true pluralism.

Why the Sudden Qatar Crush?This isn't Tucker's first anti-Israel rodeo. Post-Fox, he's platformed voices questioning U.S. aid to Israel, hosted WWII revisionists, and now fawns over Qatar – Hamas host, Al Jazeera funder, Taliban enabler. Timing? Trump 2.0's Gulf deals, including massive arms sales to Qatar amid its "mediator" role.Tucker's audience – many evangelical Christians who view Israel biblically – is getting fed a realpolitik pivot: Swap "Israel First" for "Qatar First"? Replies to critics explode with "taqiyya" accusations and calls for repentance. Pro-Israel voices dominate backlash, but Tucker keeps pushing.The Propaganda PlaybookTucker's clip is masterclass misdirection: Short, folksy, shareable. Humanizes Qatar without full endorsement, letting viewers dunk on "Israel hawks." Weaknesses? Ignores Qatar's dark record – labor abuses, terror funding. Nuance backfired into fact-check firestorms. In 2025's polarized world, post-Gaza conservatives wrestle "America First" isolationism vs. traditional support for Israel. Tucker? From Fox provocateur to indie grifter, monetizing outrage via subscriptions – now with a Doha flavor.
Bottom line: Tucker's "just asking questions" routine spotlights raw numbers while burying rights, citizenship, and coercion. For Christians picking a Middle East home? Israel wins – freedoms, holy sites, citizenship. Qatar? Pretty compound, ugly reality.
If Tucker's not "promoting Qatar," why the selective stats and property hunt? Viewers deserve better than half-truths from a guy cozying up to authoritarians.

What's your take – honest skepticism or something shadier? Comment below.

Sources: U.S. State Department Religious Freedom Reports, Pew Research, Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, Freedom House, USCIRF 2025 updates, Human Rights Watch.

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Public School Caught Forcing Islam Indoctrination on Students: Thomas More Law Center Takes Fight to U.S. Supreme Court

 

This case is bigger than one school in New Jersey. If the lower court’s ruling stands, school districts across America will have a green light to push Islam.

In 2017, seventh-graders at Chatham Middle School in New Jersey walked into what was supposed to be a simple World Cultures class. Instead, they were hit with blatant religious recruitment for Islam, paid for by taxpayer dollars and required for a passing grade.The materials were shocking:

• A five-minute video titled “Intro to Islam” declared as undisputed fact that “Allah is the one God,” “Muhammad is the last and final Messenger of God,” and the Quran is the “perfect guide for humanity.”
• The same video closed with an on-screen prayer: “May God help us all find the true faith, Islam. Ameen.”
• Students were then handed worksheets forcing them to fill in the blank for the Shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith: “There is no God but ____ and ____ is his messenger.”

No similar videos or worksheets were ever shown for Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or any other religion. Just Islam, presented not as one belief among many, but as the truth students were expected to accept.
When Christian mother Libby Hilsenrath discovered what her 12-year-old son was being taught, she went to the school board. They ignored her. She sued. Federal courts, including the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in favor of the school district, claiming this aggressive proselytizing was just “education.”
Now the Thomas More Law Center has taken the case to the United States Supreme Court, asking the justices to reverse that dangerous decision.

The Thomas More Law Center is making sure the highest court in the land hears that message loud and clear. Get updates here: Thomas More Law Center

The petition argues that forcing children to memorize and recite a religious conversion statement in a mandatory public-school class is textbook government endorsement of religion, exactly what the First Amendment forbids. It points to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Kennedy v. Bremerton decision, which told courts to look at “history and tradition” when deciding Establishment Clause cases. Under any honest historical reading, public schools have never been allowed to act as missionaries for one faith.
This case is bigger than one school in New Jersey. If the lower court’s ruling stands, school districts across America will have a green light to push Islam, or any other religion, while telling objecting parents to sit down and be quiet. Classrooms could become recruitment centers, and the fundamental right of parents to direct their children’s religious upbringing, a right the Supreme Court has called “deeply rooted in our history”, would be gutted.
Parents send their kids to school to learn math, science, and history, not to be told which God they should worship. Yet that is exactly what Chatham Middle School did, and lower courts incredibly called it constitutional.
The Supreme Court now has the chance to slam the door on this overreach. Every parent in America should be watching. Your children’s Christian faith is not Islam to shape. 

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