Tucker Carlson Compares Opponents of Indiana Law to Jihadis

"These are absolutists. These are jihadis."

Screen Shot 2015-04-01 at 1.28.14 PM“Fox & Friends Weekend” host and editor of The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson, drew a dubious comparison Tuesday evening during a panel discussion on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” In an attempt to flip the script on opponents of Indiana’s “Religious Freedom” law, he claimed they were the real bigots, or more specifically, “absolutists” and “jihadis.”

“All the talk of tolerance that a lot of us sort of took at face value in the ‘90s and even in the last decade — ‘Why can’t all of us get along; you accept me, I’ll accept you’ — they didn’t mean it at all,” Carlson said. “These

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