Fox News host warns Americans over the latest attack pegging rosary beads as an extremist symbol

“Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy got up early on Monday morning to react to an article in a liberal publication that smeared the Catholic rosary as somehow symbolizing extremism.

(Video: Fox News)

Campus -Duffy deemed it yet another example of how religious liberty is under attack.

On the weekday “Fox & Friends” show, co-host Steve Doocy began the segment by asking his weekend counterpart if the left is trying to cancel the rosary.

“Who knew that you and I were both right-wing extremists for having a rosary,” she quipped in the video clip embedded above.

While acknowledging that that the allegation seems unbelievably absurd and ignorant, Campos-Duffy went on to claim that this is part of coordinated messaging by the left to discredit religion as a way to advance their repressive agenda.

“The first thing that authoritarians try to do is to delegitimize and ban religion because it is an existential threat against the state. And I think that’s what you have here, and I think what they’re trying to do, and we’re seeing more articles like this. This seems comical, but we’re seeing more and more articles trying to associate people who are faithful, especially those who adhere to more orthodox or traditional interpretations of faith, as somehow being right-wing extremists, white nationalists, fringe. And I think we ought to be very careful of that…,” she warned.

The article in question was published on Sunday in The Atlantic, a publication that Campos-Duffy’s and Doocy’s colleague Tucker Carlson previously described as a shameless corporate mouthpiece and a place for the ruling class to talk to itself.

Contributed by a Canadian writer who describes himself in his Twitter bio as an “online hate researcher,” the op-ed concludes with this lurid passage: “The ‘battle beads’ culture of spiritual warfare permits radical-traditional Catholics literally to demonize their political opponents and regard the use of armed force against them as sanctified. The sacramental rosary isn’t just a spiritual weapon but one that comes with physical ammunition.”

Campos-Duffy, a mom of nine, continued: “And it’s very interesting that they are trying to associate it with violence. If you look at the aftermath of [overturning] Roe v. Wade, what kind of deep projection this article is involved in. It was the other side, the pro-abortion side, that was attacking churches, defaming Catholics, going in front of their churches, and doing all kinds of obscene things, and attacking religion. And it was Catholics and other Christians who were just praying for an end to abortion…”

Taking the big picture into consideration, she contended that “we really ought to fight back. We shouldn’t just laugh at the silliness of this. We should understand that in this country and around the world, Christianity and faith in general is under attack all over the world. And we should be very protective of our religious liberties and push back against this kind of bigotry against Christians.”

Campos-Duffy further underscored that an essay of this nature and similar expression in the media are a way for the left to serve notice that “we are going to go after you, we are going to say you’re an extremist, if you try to not just practice your religion but actually participate politically in order to protect your religious rights in this country which have been under attack. And Catholics and Christians saw when the government shut down churches during the pandemic, they woke up. And this is what secularists, progressives, authoritarians, are nervous of — and Marxists — and that’s what this article is trying to demonize us…”

The Atlantic article may have originally been published under the headline “How the Rosary Became an Extremist symbol.” The title now reads “How the Extremist Gun Culture Co-opted the Rosary.”

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