Elon Musk Is A Racist Snowflake And Islamophobe
There are many words that could be used to describe Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire and one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers. Authoritarian. Narcissist. Hypocrite. Sadist. Snowflake. Racist. But there is one label that somehow still escapes him, despite years of evidence for it staring us in the face: Islamophobe. That omission is remarkable. Musk has spent years amplifying some of the most virulent anti-Muslim voices in the English-speaking world. He has funded and amplified Britain’s most notorious anti-Muslim thug, Tommy Robinson. In early 2025, he was “boosting disinformation and divisive rhetoric on X about Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, posting almost 200 times,” according to Wired, in the space of a few days. In recent weeks, he has been praising and promoting the unabashedly anti-Muslim, anti-migrant film ‘Citizen Vigilante.’ And yet, for all the justified scrutiny on Musk’s politics, his businesses, and his support for far-right parties, his Islamophobia has rarely been treated as the scandal it plainly is. That says as much about our mainstream media as it does about Elon Musk himself. Credit, then, to Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of the Economist, who managed to secure a sit-down interview with the world’s first trillionaire and not only raised his boosting of ‘Citizen Vigilante’ (“it glorified the murdering of a Muslim immigrant family, I honestly think that it is irresponsible for you to put that up on X”) but also asked him, rather bluntly: “Are you anti-Muslim?” Musk could have said no. He could have condemned anti-Muslim prejudice. He could have clarified that his criticisms were aimed at extremists and criminals, not an entire faith community. Instead, he responded: “Um, I’m… I’m against… er… having… if people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. I’m against that, you know, I’m against, I’m against rape and murder, I’m against the imposition of rules and laws that are. Contrary to what we’ve come to accept in the West. And I think it’s a crying shame that the sort of traditional media like you don’t recognize this.” He didn’t reject the premise of her question. He embraced it. Muslims, according to Musk, have “antithetical views” that they are trying to impose on everyone else, and are engaged in “rape and murder.” How is this not collective blaming masquerading as, to borrow one of Musk’s favorite phrases, “common sense”? How is this not a clearly bigoted thing to say about tens of millions of Muslims living in the West? And can you imagine the reaction if Musk had responded to a journalist asking if he is anti-Jewish not by denying the charge but by saying he is against “antithetical views” and “rape and murder”? Actually, there is no need to guess or speculate. We already know what happens when Musk traffics in brazen antisemitism. Back in November 2023, Musk replied to a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, which blamed Jews for fomenting “hatred against whites,” calling it the “actual truth.” The avalanche of (justifiable) outrage and condemnation from politicians and journalists alike – including an official White House denunciation of his “hideous” and “abhorrent” lie – led to a rare if reluctant apology from Musk, followed by a visit to Auschwitz with conservative pundit Ben Shapiro (who has his own history of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab bigotry). In contrast to antisemitism, as I have repeatedly argued, Islamophobia has been mainstreamed and normalized in Western societies – especially in Western media. And, as I noted in a recent piece for the newly-launched Zeteo UK, there is even a shameful and deafening silence from political and media elites when people are arrested or charged in connection with plots to terrorize, attack, and mass-murder Muslims. Let’s be clear: Islamophobic tropes and conspiracies, especially of the kind boosted and amplified by Musk in recent months, have real-world consequences. History teaches us that hateful rhetoric lays the groundwork for hateful action. For violence and terror. So when the man who happens to have the biggest following on social media, the biggest fortune on planet Earth, and the ear of the president of the United States, refuses to deny he is “anti-Muslim,” and responds instead with even more anti-Muslim rhetoric, our response cannot and should not be a collective sigh or shrug. Because the real scandal is not just what Elon Musk said. It is how many people still refuse to call it what it is.
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There are many words that could be used to describe Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire and one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers.
Authoritarian. Narcissist. Hypocrite. Sadist. Snowflake. Racist.
But there is one label that somehow still escapes him, despite years of evidence for it staring us in the face: Islamophobe.
That omission is remarkable. Musk has spent years amplifying some of the most virulent anti-Muslim voices in the English-speaking world. He has funded and amplified Britain’s most notorious anti-Muslim thug, Tommy Robinson. In early 2025, he was “boosting disinformation and divisive rhetoric on X about Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, posting almost 200 times,” according to Wired, in the space of a few days. In recent weeks, he has been praising and promoting the unabashedly anti-Muslim, anti-migrant film ‘Citizen Vigilante.’
And yet, for all the justified scrutiny on Musk’s politics, his businesses, and his support for far-right parties, his Islamophobia has rarely been treated as the scandal it plainly is. That says as much about our mainstream media as it does about Elon Musk himself.
Credit, then, to Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of the Economist, who managed to secure a sit-down interview with the world’s first trillionaire and not only raised his boosting of ‘Citizen Vigilante’ (“it glorified the murdering of a Muslim immigrant family, I honestly think that it is irresponsible for you to put that up on X”) but also asked him, rather bluntly: “Are you anti-Muslim?”
Musk could have said no. He could have condemned anti-Muslim prejudice. He could have clarified that his criticisms were aimed at extremists and criminals, not an entire faith community.
Instead, he responded:
“Um, I’m… I’m against… er… having… if people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. I’m against that, you know, I’m against, I’m against rape and murder, I’m against the imposition of rules and laws that are. Contrary to what we’ve come to accept in the West. And I think it’s a crying shame that the sort of traditional media like you don’t recognize this.”
He didn’t reject the premise of her question. He embraced it. Muslims, according to Musk, have “antithetical views” that they are trying to impose on everyone else, and are engaged in “rape and murder.”
How is this not collective blaming masquerading as, to borrow one of Musk’s favorite phrases, “common sense”? How is this not a clearly bigoted thing to say about tens of millions of Muslims living in the West?
And can you imagine the reaction if Musk had responded to a journalist asking if he is anti-Jewish not by denying the charge but by saying he is against “antithetical views” and “rape and murder”?
Actually, there is no need to guess or speculate. We already know what happens when Musk traffics in brazen antisemitism. Back in November 2023, Musk replied to a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, which blamed Jews for fomenting “hatred against whites,” calling it the “actual truth.”
The avalanche of (justifiable) outrage and condemnation from politicians and journalists alike – including an official White House denunciation of his “hideous” and “abhorrent” lie – led to a rare if reluctant apology from Musk, followed by a visit to Auschwitz with conservative pundit Ben Shapiro (who has his own history of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab bigotry).
In contrast to antisemitism, as I have repeatedly argued, Islamophobia has been mainstreamed and normalized in Western societies – especially in Western media. And, as I noted in a recent piece for the newly-launched Zeteo UK, there is even a shameful and deafening silence from political and media elites when people are arrested or charged in connection with plots to terrorize, attack, and mass-murder Muslims.
Let’s be clear: Islamophobic tropes and conspiracies, especially of the kind boosted and amplified by Musk in recent months, have real-world consequences. History teaches us that hateful rhetoric lays the groundwork for hateful action. For violence and terror.
So when the man who happens to have the biggest following on social media, the biggest fortune on planet Earth, and the ear of the president of the United States, refuses to deny he is “anti-Muslim,” and responds instead with even more anti-Muslim rhetoric, our response cannot and should not be a collective sigh or shrug.
Because the real scandal is not just what Elon Musk said. It is how many people still refuse to call it what it is.
