New piece from @tlecaque.bsky.social and I over @religiondispatches.org: Defense Secretary Hegseth’s New ‘Kafir’ Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy: Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s tattoos for one lifetime,..." - ThreadSky

ardenthistorian.bsky.social • 4 days ago

New piece from @tlecaque.bsky.social and I over @religiondispatches.org: Defense Secretary Hegseth’s New ‘Kafir’ Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy: Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s tattoos for one lifetime,..."

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murgatroidbonbon.bsky.social•4 days ago

😆 Hegseth misspelled it.

ardenthistorian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"...this week Hegseth revealed a new one: a tattoo on his left bicep of the Arabic word “kafir,” which is usually translated as “infidel” or “unbeliever.” Hegseth showcased his new ink in a March 25th tweet from a day of performative exercise with the Navy SEALs."

Nowhereman.troet.cafe.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

@ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Fortunately, he lives in a country where tattoos can have no legal consequences.
Wait ....

ardenthistorian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Context is everything, of course, but given his neo-Crusader tattoos (the “Deus Vult,” the Jerusalem Cross, the sword for Matthew 10:34); his numerous writing, interviews, and drunken rants that valorize Christian violence against Muslims;..." https://religiondispatches.org/defense-secretary-hegseths-new-kafir-tattoo-is-the-perfect-encapsulation-of-trumpish-foreign-policy/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=daily

ardenthistorian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"...and, most importantly, the blatantly illegal Signal chat the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited to Pete Hegseth is simply daring us to ask about his, and the administration’s, blatant hatred of Muslims." https://religiondispatches.org/defense-secretary-hegseths-new-kafir-tattoo-is-the-perfect-encapsulation-of-trumpish-foreign-policy/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=daily

ardenthistorian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"he’s also an overt Christian nationalist; his church is both independently and organizationally a Christian nationalist mouthpiece, while he has served as a paid mouthpiece for Christian nationalist companies, and has a lengthy record of spewing overt anti-Muslim rhetoric."

ardenthistorian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"The allegation of a drunken rant in 2015 at an Ohio bar where he chanted “Kill All Muslims!” comes immediately to mind, but so do his 2018 comments, echoing France’s far-right parties & the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, that “they’ve got a slow-motion 9/11 happening there”

ardenthistorian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"it’s not just tattoos and drunken comments. It’s everywhere in his writing, incl his conviction that the Crusades are a model, not just for Christians dealing with secular America- his obsession with violence against “the Left” domestically- but as a model for Christian-Muslim relations as a whole"

countrylawer.bsky.social•4 days ago

This piece, as always, is a good read—but more than that, it reassures me I’m not wrong in thinking the Signal chat was carefully orchestrated to send a message. Völker, hört die Signale—indeed.

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