"Christian mullah" is a metaphor that I am using that perfectly describes the leaders of Pete Hegseth's sect among others: "Pastor Doug Wilson, a CREC co-founder, leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, the network’s flagship location. Jovial and media-friendly, Wilson is no stranger to stirring controversy with his church’s hard-line theology and its embrace of patriarchy and Christian nationalism." He and his group are positioning themselves to copy Iran's theocratic revolution, unlike Mamdani.