Republicans Call for Muslim Americans to Be Deported After Australia Shooting
Republican lawmakers are seizing on Sunday’s tragic mass shooting in Bondi Beach, Australia to call for Muslims in America to face collective punishment, in yet another example of the right’s ongoing campaign of Islamophobia.
In a post on X on Sunday, just hours after the shooting was first reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) wrote that all Muslims should be deported.
“Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult,” he said. “Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”
“The mass migration of Islamic extremists destroyed Europe. Now, are [sic] witnessing it destroy Australia. We CANNOT allow it to destroy America,” Tuberville added in a second post shortly after.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Arizona) also rushed to blame Muslims and call for Muslim Americans to be punished. “How many Muslim attacks do there have to be until we say enough?” he said.
In another post on Monday, Fine went even further, saying: “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,” he said.
New York City Council Member and Republican Minority Whip Vickie Paladino also called for the U.S. to “begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations.”
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Republican lawmakers are seizing on Sunday’s tragic mass shooting in Bondi Beach, Australia to call for Muslims in America to face collective punishment, in yet another example of the right’s ongoing campaign of Islamophobia.
In a post on X on Sunday, just hours after the shooting was first reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) wrote that all Muslims should be deported.
“Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult,” he said. “Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”
“The mass migration of Islamic extremists destroyed Europe. Now, are [sic] witnessing it destroy Australia. We CANNOT allow it to destroy America,” Tuberville added in a second post shortly after.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Arizona) also rushed to blame Muslims and call for Muslim Americans to be punished. “How many Muslim attacks do there have to be until we say enough?” he said.
In another post on Monday, Fine went even further, saying: “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,” he said.
New York City Council Member and Republican Minority Whip Vickie Paladino also called for the U.S. to “begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations.”
https://truthout.org/articles/republican...-shooting/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
