John Cleese > Why ‘non-radical’ Muslims are not speaking out against ‘radical Islam’

 

John Cleese asks why ‘non-radical’ Muslims are not speaking out against ‘radical Islam’

May 25, 2026 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer67 Comments

The answer that no one wants to face is that what is generally understood as “radical Islam” is taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and “non-radical” Muslims know this, and so they also know that if they speak out against it they could be accused of heresy or apostasy. Rather than have to live their lives looking over their shoulders in fear of their “radical” brethren, they keep silent. Then there are the outright deceivers, who teach that Islam properly understood is peaceful. They know better, but are trying to foster complacency among non-Muslims. A complacent infidel is one who does not fight back.

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There was one, once. His name is Maajid Nawaz. He had a radio talk show in England when he spoke out about radical Islam. He is now living in Italy and posting on Substack and X. I don't know yet if he is still complaining about Islamic madness or not.

@maajidnawaz  

https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/

Also, (according to Grok):

Prominent Individual Reformers and CriticsThese figures often face significant personal risks, including death threats, fatwas against them, or exile, for challenging Islamist ideology:

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Somali-born activist, author of Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. She critiques aspects of Islamic doctrine linked to violence, advocates for reform (including women's rights and secularism), and has lived under constant threat after collaborating on a film critical of Islam.
• Maajid Nawaz: Former Islamist with Hizb ut-Tahrir who was imprisoned in Egypt. He co-founded the Quilliam Foundation (a counter-extremism think tank), rejects political Islam (Islamism), and promotes a liberal, tolerant interpretation of Islam through ijtihad (independent reasoning). Co-author of Islam and the Future of Tolerance with Sam Harris.
• Irshad Manji: Canadian-Ugandan author and activist who calls for a "Muslim Reformation," emphasizing ijtihad, human rights, and reform on issues like LGBTQ rights and gender equality within an Islamic framework.
• Zuhdi Jasser: American physician and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He advocates separating mosque and state, opposes Sharia in governance, and criticizes Islamist groups.
• Others include Tawfik Hamid (former Islamist), Asra Nomani (journalist and women's rights advocate), and reformers in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere who critique Wahhabism/Salafism.
• And let us not forget Salman Rushdie and the fatwa he has lived under for several decades.

These voices exist and have done so for decades, often at great personal cost. Supporting genuine reformers while distinguishing them from apologists is key to countering radicalism effectively. For deeper dives, resources like Charles Kurzman's compilation of Islamic statements against terrorism or books by the reformers above provide extensive documentation.

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When your favourite commentators suddenly reveal a remarkable naivety, you have to wonder

 

You have to wonder if Soros' money is involved.

Tucker Carlson: ‘I Don’t Know Anyone Who’s Been Killed by Radical Islam.’

Dec 27, 2025 5:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield71 Comments

Tucker tells Soros alum that Islamic terrorism “doesn’t reflect the ‘lived reality’ of anyone I’ve ever met.”

By the time it does, Tucker, America will be long lost. 

In an interview with Harrison Berger, formerly of Drop Site News (which received $250,000 from George Soros), Tucker Carlson claimed that the recent TPUSA poll showing that a majority of attendees thought that “Radical Islam” was the greatest threat to America was really an Israeli “op”.

“I don’t know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who’s been killed by radical Islam.” Tucker Carlson claimed.

How about the last 25 years? You probably know of nearly 3000 people in America killed by radical Islam. And hundreds more killed in the previous 10 to 20 years. 

And if you actually read the news from Europe, you would know of hundreds, if not thousands, of people murdered by Muslims, as well as many thousands of European girls raped or gang-raped by Muslims who could not even be classed as radical.

He argued that, “I believe in measuring reality a little more empirically” meaning that since, presumably Tucker didn’t know them personally, they don’t matter and don’t exist.

The podcaster went on to argue that video games and pornography were much more dangerous than Islamic terrorism which is really not an issue.

“So anyone who believes that lie, I feel sorry for, but it doesn’t reflect the ‘lived reality’ of anyone I’ve ever met.”

‘Lived reality’ is a leftist term suggesting that personal experiences and feelings of especially ‘oppressed groups’ matter more than the facts.

The people believing that ‘lie’ included the late Charlie Kirk who warned that “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America”. Tucker has made common cause with the Left and Islam while echoing Obama and the Left in denying Islamic terrorism.

Tucker Carlson made his comments in an interview with Berger at ‘American Conservative’, a formerly conservative site which now hires Soros alums like Berger and promotes Islamic causes, and which had called for the creation of a ‘Palestinian’ state.

Perhaps some of these people don’t fall into Tucker’s ‘lived experience’, but they are the victims of Islamic terrorism.

This is Martin Richard, 8, who was killed by Muslim terrorists in the Boston Marathon bombings

This is the Chechen Muslim terrorist who killed him

This is Ann-Laure Decadt who was murdered in New York City by a Muslim terrorist. Tucker may not have known her personally, but her life still mattered.

This is the Muslim terrorist who killed her.

Why doesn’t Tucker want us to talk about this? As the authorities, who are very much in sync with Tucker, like to say after every attack, “no motive has been reliably established.”

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Candace Owens: “No matter how hard the GOP tries to make ‘radical Islam’ happen, the base doesn’t care about it”

Dec 27, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer45 Comments

“The base” may or may not care about it. I’ve been shouting into the void for decades myself. But I’ve also amassed here at jihadwatch.org over 90,000 pieces of evidence that “radical Islam,” or actually, mainstream, jihadist Islam, is a real threat, not one that “the GOP” is ginning up. In fact, “the GOP” cares about it only a bit more than Candace Owens herself does, even if it doesn’t share her hateful paranoia about the tiny Jewish state being the actual threat to the United States.

Certainly, I am not among the base of the GOP, however, I have been warning of the coming catastrophe that is Islam for more than 10 years. It is becoming very obvious that Islam is the vehicle that will be driven by the antiChrist during the Great Tribulation, which is only a few very short years away, if it hasn't already begun. That professing Christians like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens can't see that is very disturbing.

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