Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) didn’t hold back when defending a post he made on social media in which he compared the rhetoric and policies of the sanctuary city of New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the horrible, still-painful September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in NYC.
As background, the angry denunciations of the Senator began when he shared a post that was originally posted by the “End Wokeness” account on X. In the post, Mamdani, who appeared in the photo be hosting a Ramadan Iftar event at NYC’s City Hall, was juxtaposed with a heart-wrenching photo of the attacked Twin Towers.
The caption on the post read, “Less than 25 years apart,” implying that New Yorkers had forgotten about the great tragedy that struck their country thanks to Islamic terror. Sen. Tuberville, commenting on the image and situation, said, “The enemy is inside the gates.”
As could be expected, the fact that a sitting United States Senator had posted such an incendiary image about the situation raised the hackles of the “moderate” and leftist segments of the internet, and they demanded an explanation from Sen. Tuberville. Not backing down in the slightest, he said, “I just go by his rhetoric.”
That wasn’t all. Sen. Tuberville also didn’t back down when speaking to the media. Commenting on the matter to DC News Now’s Reshad Hudson, the senator explained, “He’s made a lot of statements about his stance with Islam and radical Islam, all the things that go along with what he preaches every day. And I’m just kind of repeating what he’s saying.”
Adding to that, Sen. Tuberville called on Americans to put the Constitution first, not radical Islam, saying, “We don’t need a division in this country. We need everybody to go with the Constitution, understand we have moral values. And if we all stick with those–– I don’t care if you’re Muslim or Catholic or Baptist, it makes no difference.”
The senator then argued that the real divider here is Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has used radical tax policy, radical rhetoric, and radical sanctuary policies to divide his city and the country. He said, on that point, “We need to make the country better; we don’t need to divide it. That’s what he’s doing in New York.”
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That wasn’t all. He was then asked about whether Muslim Americans who are living in America might find his post offensive, a comment to which he replied by saying that he has “some great Muslim friends”. Further, he claimed to have spoken to “two Iranians in Alabama this past week about the war. Obviously, they’re Muslim.”
Then, building on his earlier point about the Constitution, he argued that calling for Sharia law and the like is utterly unacceptable, and must be eschewed in favor of an American First policy. He said, “If you teach and preach Sharia law, if you bow down to the Quran, it teaches death to Americans. That don’t fly with me, OK?”
And, returning to his point about division and how those who come to America should not be trying to divide it, and should be called out if they do so, the senator said, “Hey, you come be part of our country [and] don’t try to divide people, don’t try to push your culture — we already have a culture — [then] I’m all for you.”
Watch Sen. Tuberville comment on banning Sharia law here: