Saturday, November 16, 2024

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Hopes for a Christian Crusade – Mother Jones

In 2020, Hegseth turned his obsession with the Christian Crusades into a book, American Crusade. In a piece this week, Media Matters noted that one of its central themes is the destruction of Muslim holy sites in order to reclaim them for Christianity. 

Hegseth also rails against Muslims' "well-documented aversion to assimilation." Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religious studies professor who has studied the Reconstructionist tradition that the TheoBros are part of, told me she finds Hegseth's fixation on the Crusades "really troubling—but also it's completely consistent with the Christian Reconstructionists. 

That's particularly troubling for someone who might have the biggest military in the world under his control."…

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