Republican members of Congress have called for Muslims to be expelled from America, have claimed Islam is incompatible with American culture and government and have denied Islam is a religion deserving Constitutional protection.
“Islam is not a religion,” said Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama in a post on X. “It’s a cult. Islamists aren’t here to assimilate. They’re here to conquer. Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”
Randy Fine
Tuberville has routinely attacked Muslims but he’s not alone. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., agreed Muslims should leave America.
“Diversity is not our strength,” wrote Fine on X. “Diversity has become suicidal. It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible. Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America.”
The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus condemned the attacks by Tuberville and Fine, saying, “Republican Members of Congress and local elected officials across the country have actively spread vile, anti-Muslim and xenophobic rhetoric that puts millions of innocent people at risk,” said CAPAC, which called their comments “deplorable, dangerous and disqualifying for any elected official.”
It doesn’t appear Tuberville and Fine have written any legislation to expel Muslims, but last year they introduced legislation to ban Sharia law from the U.S. even though no federal court recognizes Sharia, which is an internal conduct code for Muslims.
One Alabama news outlet said Tuberville exhibited “a contempt so profound that he would violently remove some Alabamians from their homes and communities for the way they worship God.”
Islamophobic sentiment is rising. As BNG reported, the city council of Broken Arrow, Okla., voted Jan. 12 to deny a rezoning request for a proposed mosque and retail development. Texas sued an Islamic group seeking to build a mosque and housing development in that state.
Tuberville, the former Auburn University football coach who was elected to the Senate in 2020 with no prior political experience, has registered to run for governor of Alabama. But an opponent in that race claims Tuberville doesn’t even live in Alabama but in a $5.5 million beach home in Florida.
Tuberville has a long history of anti-Muslim comments and is a regular critic of Muslim elected officials:
- After Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was sprayed with a liquid at an event last week, Tuberville claimed she staged the attack and “needs to be in jail.”
- When Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi took her oath of office using a Quran, he wrote, “The enemy is inside the gates.”
- He made the same comment when Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City mayor with a Quran.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, recently added Tuberville to its list of anti-Muslim extremists in the United States.
The notion that Islam is not a religion is taught by a number of conservative Christian groups including worldview training camp Summit Ministries, which calls Islam “a worldview.”
In other Tuberville news:
- He has criticized the NFL ahead of the Super Bowl: “The NFL is in a tailspin, they have been in a tailspin (since) Colin Kaepernick took a knee and all this woke nonsense. I don’t call this the Super Bowl with this rabbit or bunny guy or whatever he is at halftime. I call it the Woke Bowl.”
- After being criticized for extensive stock trading, he claimed he put his assets in a blind trust but there’s no indication he ever did so.
- He has criticized “Democrats’ attempts to re-write history about the January 6 hoax,” issuing a press release that says, “Let’s be clear what happened that day: Democrats and the deep state hate Donald Trump so much that they helped orchestrate a coup against our government.