A.G. Gancarski
Incidents in New Orleans and Las Vegas led a Florida Senator to lash out against adherents of the Islamic faith.
“The problem with referring to #MuslimTerror as ‘radical Islam’ is radical implies rarity. It is not. 37% of US (!) Muslims support Hamas according to Pew Research. And that is just those who admitted. The first step to solving the #MuslimProblem is to admit we have one,” posted Republican Sen. Randy Fine.
Fine cited data from an April 2024 poll in his post, which contextualized the shocking violence that brought in the new year.
As The Associated Press reports, U.S. Army veteran Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar was driving a vehicle that plowed through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the first hours of 2025, killing 15 and injuring 30 as of the most recent tallies from the news service.
President Joe Biden noted Wednesday that the assailant was inspired by the Islamic State, a cross-national terror group that the United States has battled for much of the 21st century.
It is possible that Jabbar was part of a larger conspiracy, given that explosive devices were found near the scene of his murderous rampage. Authorities and others will be on watch, especially given that the Sugar Bowl, which was slated to happen Wednesday, is now scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
A second incident involving a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas happened on New Year’s Day as well. At this writing, the driver’s name has not been released by authorities, and a connection between the events has not been ruled out by official sources.
Fine is now running for Congress in Florida’s 6th Congressional District. Endorsed last year by President-elect Donald Trump, he is the seeming favorite in the race to replace incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in the GOP-dominated, east Central Florida district that includes the Daytona area.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
13 comments
Red Storm
January 2, 2025 at 8:59 am
Yup. The religion of peace isn’t very peaceful. Ask the people in Western Europe. Many of them have had enough as well.
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George
January 2, 2025 at 9:44 am
Randy Fine is a bigot.
Florida is Red
January 2, 2025 at 10:22 am
Do take your family to Molenbeek, Belgium and report back. Of course that neighborhood is full of very welcoming people. Try carrying a bible and wearing a gold cross as well.
MH/Duuuval
January 2, 2025 at 10:43 am
From Foreign Policy, July 2022: : Molenbeek is a distinctly immigrant neighborhood. Its market is full of shops selling veils, long gowns, and hijabs, as well as a number of restaurants offering Middle Eastern delicacies. The majority of its residents are Muslims of Moroccan origin, though immigrant populations from Africa and Eastern Europe are growing there as well. Those who have felt stigmatized elsewhere in the country, at times simply for what they wear, say they feel freer to embrace their identities here.”
More type casting from Peachy. Go into any white suburban American neighborhood and see if your hijab or turban or accented English or skin tone merits open arms or suspicion and skepticism.
Florida is Red
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 am
MH has obviously never heard of Molenbeek so she fires up the google machine. MH has probably never left Duval County as well. If you ever get to Brussels, that is in Belgium by the way, ask a Police Officer about Molenbeek and if they even go in there? You see they like to run that neighborhood under Sharia Law. If you see a black flag, you stay away. I have lived in Europe and have seen the changes and obviously not for
the good. Flame away.
George
January 2, 2025 at 1:00 pm
I know it’s difficult…try not to confuse Belgium with the United States.
MH/Duuuval
January 4, 2025 at 12:40 pm
Peachy is easily recognized and stigmatized everywhere overseas as the Ugly American. That’s why in Belgium he/she/they spoke neither of the two official languages, but insisted on gesticulating, pointing, and speaking loudly in English — but never in any immigrant neighborhood, of course.
Peachy knows what he knows and repeatedly tells everyone, and is incapable of broadening his knowledge or understanding beyond what he learned when George Wallace was his idol.
This is why Peachy consistently purveys salacious gossip, partisan dis-information, and insults on this site. Over the late summer and fall, as Peachy melted down publicly, many folks on this site used online research to disprove his inane and malicious verbal swill. Peachy don’t need to do any online research — he /she/they merely need to tune in to MAGA enterprises.
MH/Duuuval
January 2, 2025 at 10:53 am
Fine is both a well-known bigot and blowhard.
Here’s the stat from Pew that he trimmed to fit his racist argument: “When it comes to the Israeli government, only 10% of U.S. Muslims have a favorable view. In fact, Muslims are more likely to have a favorable view of Hamas (37%), which has controlled Gaza, than of the Israeli government. Still, 58% of Muslims have an unfavorable view of Hamas.”
The state of Israel now lords it over the overwhelmingly civilian population of Gaza, much as the German Nazis lorded it over the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. Both are tragedies, one of which is occurring in real time.
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Mike in Florida
January 3, 2025 at 7:34 am
Randy Fine is a hate-filled, bigoted blowhard. We have enough of those in Congress already.
Harold Finch
January 3, 2025 at 3:26 pm
Unfortuneately, the crazy fat man has a point about Muslims and radical sects within the US, they are everywhere!
MH/Duuuval
January 4, 2025 at 12:45 pm
The intelligence community in the US says domestic terrorists are the overwhelming problem. The crazies may be inspired by Muslim radicals, or not.
The “discovery” of the auto as a weapon of terror and its introduction into the US will be a simpler tool for the crazies than even explosives or attacks with weapons of war. And, it only takes one behind the wheel.