Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville was referring to Mamdani’s swearing-in on a Quran. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has documented a history of anti-Muslim statements from him.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville from Alabama posted on social media: “The enemy is inside the gates” upon learning that Zohran Mamdani became the first mayor of New York City to be sworn in using a Quran.
The Quran is the primary religious text of Islam, akin to the Christian Bible. Mamdani is the first Muslim mayor of New York, the nation’s largest city.
Tuberville, a conservative football coach-turned-politician, has a history of making anti-Muslim statements, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
His entire state has less people than NYC.
fewer
You are correct, but I’m keeping the colloquialism.
If he keeps to his Oath, he can swear on whatever book he wants.
Maybe that is why US politicians lie so much, the bible is the problem /s
Personally if I ever need to take an oath, I am doing it on a copy of the 7 tenets of the Satanic Temple.
That or Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.
When we swore an oath to protect The Constitution upon enlistment in the military, we didn’t use anything. Probably a good idea since I doubt that every MEPS branch wants to have several hundred holy books on hand, JIC.
If I’m ever sworn in to something, I want it to be on a VHS recorded copy of the “Drumhead” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. If that isn’t available, “Measure of a Man” is also acceptable.
Why VHS?
Because it feels right.
Fair enough.
This last time Trump didn’t swear on a damn thing.
These people are traitors.
Tommy Tuberville, You don’t want to mess with The Zohran.
Oh is the stupid piece of shit lil tommy tooberville speaking? Hey look, the more he opens his mouth, the more shit falls out of it! look! Wow! What a completely unhinged fucking moron. I weep for our future.
Let’s face it, the enemy is, in fact inside the gates. It’s painted orange, and it’s shitting its pants whilst sitting in the whitehouse fantasizing about little girls (when not in a dementia fever dream).
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He’s right… but wrong person…his dumbass is the enemy of the people
So many republicans are smart people pretending to be folksy morons. Tuberville is the genuine article.
Another pedophile giving an opinion no one asked for.
When your voter base only likes you cause you are just as shitty a human being as they are, ouch.
Oh their inside alright… right there in congress.
And the White House.
I had a sociology teacher that is Muslim rant about (circa 2010) prejudices relating to how violent the text in the Quran is. Argued that the book should be re-written. However this was also a person who argued that schools should swap teachers and force them to grade each other’s test.
Then I took a class on religions in North America and learned that teacher had a history of getting Muslim students who they claimed learned more about their own faith practices in that class than before they had been enrolled.
Islamophobia is rampant in the west and no one wants to combat it.
All the Abrahamic religions are violent and oppressive and no one wants to combat it either.
Please don’t hold water for the narrative that Israel is representative of Judaism as a whole
It is certainly empowering them. Same way Islam is empowering Iran and Christianity is empowering the far right in America.
There are peaceful people despite those religions, but not because of them. Our peaceful and cooperative nature comes from our biology and societies.
That’s simply false. I’m a practicing Muslim and I’m peaceful because of my religion and not despite it. My religion pushes me to be more patient with people and respect people who probably don’t deserve it.
Claiming that Muslims are peaceful despite their religion is a profoundly ignorant take. Talk to any kid in Sunday school if you don’t believe me. Islam has the same root word in Arabic as “peace.”
All social animals demonstrate the capacity and preference formorality. 6 month old toddlers demonstrate it before even understanding religion and complex language.
You are peaceful because of our biological social programming and evolution selecting for it over thousands of generations, not because rules written down in a book by some person.
Only humans commit violence in the name of religion. Its not the only reason, but its a very common one. Its a very effective way to reprogram our inherit morality and to get good people to think that bad things are good.
how violent the text in the Quran is
Have you ever read the Bible?
Tuberville, you’ve been here all along
The enemy has been inside the gates since 2016. As if this year- it’s calling from inside the house.
They were inside before. Trump only sped up the process, the evil was brooding since forever.
Not the colored one, though. The white one.
