Principalities of Darkness

The world has gone mad. Suddenly, many voices formerly on the right are embracing Islam and other anti-Christian and anti-American worldviews. Disgraced former congresswoman and onetime Trump supporter, Majorie Taylor Green, is now claiming that the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania was a hoax. Try telling that to Corey Comperatore’s family. Candace Owens has been all over social media and, on her podcast, claiming that Erika Kirk was behind the assassination of her husband Charlie Kirk. Something is going on here. How can these people be so obviously wrong about what we all saw with our own two eyes. Butler, PA was not a hoax, and Erika Kirk did not kill her husband. But these people do not need to prove anything, they just need to do what the devil does – sow the seeds of doubt to change reality. It is like they are both trying to exonerate the assassination-happy left, and blame the victims of the left’s assassinations.

Tucker Carlson is doing it, also. He’s completely off the rails. Out of nowhere, he made a strange claim that the Book of Ester in the Old Testament was about the Jewish “genocide of Persians” when in fact, it is the complete opposite. The book of Esther is about God thwarting a planned genocide against the Jewish people. But why is he talking about that rather obscure book in the bible? Tucker is putting his false spin out there to denigrate the Jews. The Muslims are the ones who want to kill all the Jews, but Tucker is lying about scripture to claim that the Jews are the ones who are genocidal. It is as if he is carrying the water for the Jew-hating Muslims. This is not much different than the far-left people in our country who have memory-holed October 7, and are calling the Gaza war a “genocide”.

Tucker is so driven by Jew hatred that he is making up false accusations against the Jews. He recently said, “It is not being reported, but it is a fact that in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested Mossad agents planning on committing bombings in those countries. That’s weird. It doesn’t make any sense. Why would Israelis be committing bombings in two Gulf countries?” But both Qatar and Saudi Arabia have stated publicly that Tucker’s accusations are completely false. The Jews were not trying to bomb Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Tucker has done a complete 180 on Islam. In 2006, he said, “I’m a bigot. If you’re really into Islam, I don’t care for you. I don’t care what that sounds like - you can call me a racist. I’d vote for you if you said that.” but in 2026, he says: “No President should mock Islam.” He is sounding more and more like our first Muslim President, Barack Hussein Obama. Tucker is trying to whitewash the evil of Islam through Jesus.

On his website, Tucker posted, “the people in charge do not want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That’s why Donald Trump’s painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion.” You do not love Jesus if you have to reimagine Jesus to fit your worldview. That is what Muslims do to Jesus. They love their reimagined version of Jesus which supports their Islamic theology, but they do not love the true authentic Jesus – the Son of God, the savoir of the world, the Alpha and the Omega because the authentic Jesus exposes the lie that is Islam.

By the way, many Christians re-imagine Jesus to fit their worldview as well. We see that all the time. Pope Leo is reimagining Jesus right before our eyes. If you love Jesus, you do not change Jesus to fit your lifestyle, you change yourself to walk with Jesus. The Devil tempts people to reimagine Jesus. He gets people not to reject God, but tricks them into reimagining God into a false deity. In the Garden of Eden, the devil did not get Eve to openly go against God, he convinces Eve to alter what God commanded her and Adam. When tempted to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve pushes back on the devil, “God did say, ‘you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die’.” The devil reimagines for her what God told her. He says, “You certainly will not die, for God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So, Eve ate the fruit, thus doing the devil’s bidding by bringing sin and evil into the world.

It seems apparent that all these people have turned to the dark side. What forces are at play here? As Scripture says, “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12). These people are systematically being captured by the devil – the principality of darkness. You have to be captured by the devil to embrace and support the religion of the devil – Islam.

We are witnessing the principalities of evil taking over Great Britain. In England, the King and Queen proudly worshipped Allah as they enjoyed a Ramadan meal with Muslims in their country. King Charles said, “Islam helped create a modern Europe. Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and experiencing the world that Christianity itself has lost.” The King fails to give specific examples or evidence on how Muslims “helped create modern Europe”. And when you speak of understanding, I side with Jesus who preached, “love your enemies”, not the words of the Quran which commands its Muslim followers to murder their enemies – all non-Muslims.

Prince William has also tried to white wash Islam as well. He has said to Muslims, “show the world the true face of Islam, as a religion of peace and understanding.” Can we just stop this nonsense of Islam is the religion of peace? In the 1,400-year history of Islam, there is no evidence that they are the “religion of peace.” Islam has proven itself time and again as the religion of death, murder, and subjugation. The “religion of peace” moniker is the sheep clothing that Muslims wear so they can infiltrate and conquer. Islam has never shown itself as a “religion of peace and understanding,” but I guess if the Prince said it, then it must be true.

Just in case the King and the Prince have pulled their crowns pulled so far down on their faces that they cannot see what is happening in their country. In Great Britain, 25 years ago, there were 60 million British people, and on average 10,000 rapes per year. That’s 1 rape for every 6,000 British citizen. In the last 25 years, Great Britain has imported 1.2 million Muslim migrants from the Middle East, and now, they have 70,000 rapes per year. That’s 1 rape per every 20 Muslims that they imported. Islam is the most violent and least understanding religion on the planet – and it is not even close. Yet our leaders in the West are cozying up to them.

Pope Leo has been completely captured by the principalities of darkness. He openly lies and manipulates the scriptures to benefit Islam.  He said, “Jesus told us, ‘blessed are the peacemakers’, but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” The Pope is the one manipulating religion. Only the first four words of that quote are the words of Jesus. The other thirty words, the Pope put into Jesus’ mouth. The Pope is doing to Jesus what the Muslims and false Christians do to Jesus. He is reimaging Jesus in his own worldview, in his own image. Donald Trump was wrong for posting a picture of himself as Jesus, but the Pope is just as wrong for presenting his personal views as Jesus’ views.

He blasphemously twisted the scriptures to call for a stop to the war in Iran. Why? Iran is the most evil and vile of all the countries in the world. They execute homosexuals. They subjugate women – forced burqas, honor killings, child rape, women can’t drive or get an education. They just murdered 40,000 of their own people for peacefully protesting. They are the leading state sponsor of terrorism. Yet, no denunciation of any of that by the Pope, only attacking Donald Trump who is trying to put an end to all that.

The Pope recently posted on X: “Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa.” He hasn’t denounced the slaughter of thousands of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria, nor has he denounced the persecution of Christians by Muslims in Algeria and throughout Africa. Pope Leo recently visited a Mosque and bowed down to Allah. That’s the equivalent to bowing down to the devil. The Pope opened up a Muslim prayer room in the Vatican. The Muslims are not opening up a Catholic prayer room in any of their Mosques. They are burning churches and murdering Christians. The Muslims infiltrate, expand, take control from the inside, and then systematically slaughter their enemies – anyone who is non-Muslim.

The Pope just shattered the concept of Papal Infallibility because no one could be more demonstrably wrong about anything than the Pope’s stated position of embracing Islam. We, conservatives, like to point out that as the Pope calls for open borders in our country, he lives in a city surrounded by walls to keep people out, but the history goes much deeper than that. The walls around the Vatican were ordered to be built by Pope Leo IV, after violent raids where marauding Muslims sacked St. Peter’s Basilica. Does the Pope not remember that Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Muslim from Turkey, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, shooting him four times in St. Peter's Square. Only by the grace of God did Pope John Paul survive. A Muslim is the reason why you drive around in the Popemobile, surrounded by bullet proof glass.

In Matthew 7:15, Jesus states: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves". He taught his followers can identify these wolves by their "fruit"—their behavior, teachings, and outcomes. Healthy trees bear good fruit, and diseased trees bear bad fruit. What has the fruit of Islam been? 65,000 Islamic terrorist attacks in the last 25 years throughout the world. Their fruit is as rotten and as poisonous as can be. Islam is the forbidden fruit. If you eat of it, you will surely die.

The Pope needs to realize that Popes don’t automatically go to heaven. You cannot cozy up to the devil and be gifted the reward of heaven simply because you held some worldly title within the church on Earth. It doesn’t work that way. The more the Pope embraces Islam, the more he is rejecting Jesus Christ because Islam rejects Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior. Islam lies about Jesus Christ, they try to steal his divinity, and they must be rejected by all those who claim to be followers of Christ.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.