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MaddowBlog-'Unabashed bigotry': GOP's Tuberville sparks backlash with anti-Muslim messages
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the Alabama Republican’s anti-Muslim message represents “a stain on our Congress.”
Anti-Muslim rhetoric is too common among too many congressional Republicans, but Tommy Tuberville is taking this to levels that deserve to be seen as a scandal.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-20T16:32:26.668Z
@vanhollen.senate.gov said the Alabaman’s bigotry represents “a stain on our Congress,†which was exactly right www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tommy-tuberville-anti-muslim-messages-mamdani
On New Year’s Eve, the Alabama senator responded to a report about Zohran Mamdani being sworn in with the Quran at the New York City mayor’s inauguration. “The enemy is inside the gates,” Tuberville wrote via social media.
Almost three weeks later, Tuberville did it again.
Highlighting a video clip of Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi of Virginia being sworn into office with her hand on the Quran, the Republican used social media to push the same six-word message: “The enemy is inside the gates.”
Tuberville didn’t elaborate, though the Alabamian’s missive wasn’t exactly subtle. It also generated a swift response from Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who responded to the Republican’s message with a condemnation published on Bluesky:
...The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone recently wrote, “Almost a decade removed from President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban Muslims from entering the country during his first term — a vile passion project that has been given new life in his second presidency — a growing number of House and Senate Republicans are taking Islamophobia to a new level, actively calling for discrimination against Muslims and even arguing that some should be denaturalized and deported from the United States.”
Perticone’s piece was published four weeks ago. Tuberville isn’t just proving the thesis true, he’s also showing the degree to which the problem is getting worse.
Almost three weeks later, Tuberville did it again.
Highlighting a video clip of Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi of Virginia being sworn into office with her hand on the Quran, the Republican used social media to push the same six-word message: “The enemy is inside the gates.”
Tuberville didn’t elaborate, though the Alabamian’s missive wasn’t exactly subtle. It also generated a swift response from Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who responded to the Republican’s message with a condemnation published on Bluesky:
This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
...The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone recently wrote, “Almost a decade removed from President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban Muslims from entering the country during his first term — a vile passion project that has been given new life in his second presidency — a growing number of House and Senate Republicans are taking Islamophobia to a new level, actively calling for discrimination against Muslims and even arguing that some should be denaturalized and deported from the United States.”
Perticone’s piece was published four weeks ago. Tuberville isn’t just proving the thesis true, he’s also showing the degree to which the problem is getting worse.
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