Sen. Randy Fine, a Jewish-American Florida state Senator, on Thursday called for the expulsion of all non-Americans who have advocated for "Muslim terror" in the wake of the suspected New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans.
Sen. Fine, a Republican, claimed that "Muslim terror" is not rare in the religious group. He lambasted the "pro-Muslim terror" protestors who gathered in Times Square Wednesday calling for an "intifada revolution" hours after a suspected terrorist barreled his ISIS-flag-bearing truck into dozens of New Year's Eve partiers in New Orleans' French Quarter.
Fine says Americans must "acknowledge" and "deal with" the "fundamentally broken and dangerous culture."
"We need to immediately expel any non-Americans who are or have advocated for Muslim terror as a first step," he told The Floridian in a text message. "We need to investigate and prosecute organizations on college campuses—includ[ing] those administrators and faculty that support them—and outside them that promote Muslim terror.
"We need to end all university funding from Muslim terror backers like Qatar," continued Fine, one of just two Jewish Republicans in the state Legislature. "And we need to strip all government licenses and funding, as we have seen is an issue in Florida, to licensed professionals and academic institutions that support Muslim terror."
He referenced a March study done by the Pew Research Center, which found that 37% of American Muslims are more likely to have a favorable view of Hamas, the militia group controlling Gaza, than the Israeli government. Muslim Americans are also more inclined than other religious groups to say that Hamas has valid reasons for fighting and Israel does not.
The study also found that while Muslims and the religiously unaffiliated are the most likely to say both Israel and Hamas are behaving unacceptably, roughly half of both groups also said that regardless of how acceptable they believe Hamas' brutal Oct. 7th attack to be, Hamas' reasons for fighting Israel are valid.
"For too long, we have allowed the soft racism of low expectations and a fear of being called names—which the Muslim terror advocates have weaponized—to ignore the problem," Fine said. "But it is time for that to be over."
Fine, a staunch Israel ally, has long advocated against what he calls "Muslim terror," helping spearhead the charge to revoke the dental license of an antisemitic imam, threatening to cut funding for cities supporting Palestine, and blasting Gov. Ron DeSantis for visiting a country that recognized Palestine as a state.
Fine will resign his state Senate seat on March 31 to run for Congressional District 6 with the endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump.
Suspected terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran, plowed a rented pickup truck into New Year's Eve partiers around 3:15 a.m. on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring 30 more. He was shot and killed by police minutes later.
His truck was flying the flag of ISIS, a radical Islamist terror group.
