Far Right Evangelical leaders fused Zionist allegiance with open demonization of Islam.

Evidence

Despite efforts by moderate Evangelical and mainline Protestant leaders to condemn Islamophobic rhetoric, the Far Right Christian leadership, which proudly boasts its Zionist allegiance, openly demonizes Islam and defames the Prophet Muhammad. In an interview on the televangelist Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, Rev. Jerry Falwell said, “These Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world. And we are the great Satan. We are the ultimate goal.” … As the founder of the Moral Majority, an influential Evangelical political movement, Falwell’s words on the Christian Broadcasting Network reached millions of Americans. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 733

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Weyrich’s ‘fifth column’ rhetoric and the general pattern of casting minority groups as internal enemies — parallels McCarthy-era and anti-immigrant panics discussed in earlier chapters of this same book.