House Republican Admits on CNN He’s So ‘Intense’ It ‘Scares’ People As He Argues Against Islam Spreading in US
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) repeatedly told CNN’s Brianna Keilar Monday that he’s very “intense” when he talks about the “Islamification of America.”
“I want to ask you about something that you said to Laura Loomer — who is a controversial far-right activist — about your bill, the ‘No Sharia Act,'” Keilar began.
“You said, ‘We have to be focused on the problem.’ You talked about the problem being the islamification of America. You said, ‘We can see what happened in France, we can see what happened in the U.K., we can see what happened in Dearborn. And we have to say, we don’t want that.’ What did happen in Dearborn? What do you mean by that?” Keilar asked.
Fine answered, “Well, the mayor of Dearborn, in a city that has become 55% Muslim, told a Christian minister that he was no longer welcome there because he did not want a road named after a terrorist. That is what we’re dealing with in this country. And when you have a radical jihadi like [Zohran] Mamdani (D) possibly being elected in the city of New York, we’ve got to deal with that.”
Fine added, “Look, I know that I’m intense about these issues. I’m intense about a lot of things. But these issues matter, and we’ve got to be able to focus on it.
Kailar asked Fine about the fact that President Donald Trump “courted Muslim American, Arab American, voters in Dearborn. He won Dearborn on his way to winning Michigan. He has nominated Muslim, American mayors in Michigan not far from Dearborn, including Dearborn Heights, to be ambassadors. How do you square what you’re saying with what he has said and what how he has viewed these folks?”
“Not all Muslims believe in terrorism — the problem is, a large percentage do,” Fine said, adding that Trump is engaging Muslims who want peace.”
“Do you think that sometimes you may be lumping people in together?” Keilar asked.
“No, and as I said, I’m an intense person. Sometimes it scares away the people closest to me. But what I would say is, I’m very clear about this. I believe we have to focus on mainstream Islam…It is the mainstream, the imams that we can see over and over and over again, like Mamdani campaigned with a couple of days ago, who call for the destruction of the west, and we cannot be afraid to call it out.”
Watch the clip above via CNN.
