The Tucker Carlson Show
The Global War on Christianity Just Got a Whole Lot Worse, and Ted Cruz Doesn’t Care
07 Nov 2025
Zelensky is using the secret police to extinguish traditional Christianity in Ukraine. How come no one in the US Congress seems to notice this? (00:00) The Armenian Christian Persecution (24:10) Who's Behind the Global Push to Eliminate Christianity? (30:50) Why Aren't American Leaders Talking About the Attacks on the Armenian Church? (37:15) Zelensky's Torture of Ukrainian Christians (45:35) The Efforts to Censor This Global Crisis Paid partnerships with: Landman on Paramount+: Don’t miss the hit series everyone is talking about - Landman. New Season streaming November 16th, only on Paramount+ GCU: Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Learn more at https://GCU.edu Cozy Earth: Luxury shouldn't be out of reach. Go to https://cozyearth.com/TUCKER for up to 40% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Thanks so much for doing this. Armenia is famous, to the extent it's famous. Armenians are famous for, well, being successful in business and quite cohesive as a community and very sincerely Christian, observant. But probably they're most famous for being exterminated by the Ottoman Turks at the end of the First World War, the Armenian Genocide.
And I think most people don't fully appreciate the extent to which that was religious persecution, that was a religious genocide, and they were murdered because they were Christians. Tell us how we know that.
Yeah. At the end of the rule of Ottoman Empire, after Balkan Wars, Ottoman Turks saw that some Balkan countries like Bulgaria and part of Greece became independent and the Christian countries in Balkans became independent. After that, they... filled some big risk in Christian population of Ottoman Empire, like Armenians, Pontus Greeks became independent.
And they started to persecute the Christian population of Ottoman Empire. or to convert them to Islam. How it went on? When the war started between Antanta and Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary, Hungary, the Ottoman army came to all villages of Armenians in Ottoman Empire and asked two questions, just the villagers or the people who lived in towns.
The first question was, will you convert to Islam? Like 98% of the population, Armenian population of Ottoman Empire denied. Said no. Said no. And the second question is, if you don't convert to Islam, you will go from here to desert of Deir Zor. It's like 800 kilometers, 600 kilometers from Armenian highlands. And all the men were killed there.
And all the women were taken with children to the desert of Deir ez-Zor. And we have lost 70% of the population of our nation because everyone, one and a half million people, said no to converting to another religion. We want everyone to know about this story, not just about the dark side of the history. It has a bright message too, that Christians in the 20th century were very...
You know, they went in a way of Christ and they were sacrificed. And we hope all this sacrificial will bring the Christians of our days to more faith that what we have, the biggest and most humanistic religion that we accept and we must live with it.
So I did not understand until we just had breakfast that the victims of the Armenian genocide, who've been talked about a lot, there's been a debate in the Congress for many years whether we can call it a genocide, whether that's somehow trademarked, but it was a genocide. But I didn't understand that they were Christian martyrs.
They died not because of their ethnicity, but because of their religious faith.
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