Florida state Senator Randy Fine, who is running to fill the vacancy in Florida’s 6th U.S. congressional district, singled out Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar on Tuesday. Quote-tweeting an endorsement from the Republican Jewish Coalition, Fine posted, “​​The ‘Hebrew Hammer’ is coming. @RashidaTlaib and @IlhanMN might consider leaving before I get there. #BombsAway.”

Tlaib and Omar are two of just three Muslim members of Congress, and the only two Muslim women.

Fine has a history of using demeaning rhetoric against Muslims and Palestinians and trafficking in Islamophobic tropes. In the past, he has said that “we have a Muslim problem in America” and that “while many Muslims are not terrorists, they are the radicals, not the mainstream.”

In August 2021, when Fine was a representative in Florida’s state House, the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a complaint against him with the House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee, alleging that Fine “violated his duty as an elected official” by “encouraging his constituents to run over people at Palestinian advocacy protests,” “call[ing] for the annihilation of the Palestinian people,” and direct-messaging a Floridian to “blow yourself up,” among other instances of “egregious conduct.”

In September, Fine took to X to cheer the death of 26-year-old American citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, an activist reportedly killed by the Israeli forces while peacefully protesting illegal settlements in the West Bank. “Throw rocks, get shot. One less #MuslimTerror ist. #FireAway,” Fine wrote.

Donald Trump threw his support behind Fine’s candidacy last week, referring to him as an “America First Patriot” in a Truth Social post.

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The study conducted by Professors Oliver Decker and Ayline Heller reveals a notable 4.8 percentage point rise in support for xenophobic views since 2022, now representing 21.8% of the population.

Particularly alarming is the sharp increase in western Germany, traditionally seen as more welcoming, where support for xenophobia spiked by 6.7 points to 19.3%.

In contrast, eastern Germany, where xenophobia has been historically higher, showed even more significant support at 31.5%.

The study also highlights an alarming rise in anti-Muslim sentiment.

Support for banning Muslim immigration in the western states surged from 23.6% in 2022 to 32.8%, while a staggering 48% of respondents reported feeling like “strangers in their own country” due to the Muslim presence – up from 36.6% just two years ago.

Adding to the concern, satisfaction with German democracy has plummeted, with nationwide approval dropping 15.4 points to just 42.3%.

The decline is more pronounced in the east, where only 29.7% of residents expressed satisfaction with the functioning of democracy, compared to 45.5% in the west.

The study also underscores the strong political ties between xenophobic views and party affiliation. Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) were the most likely to hold xenophobic views, with 60.5% agreeing with such rhetoric.

However, even followers of mainstream parties like the liberal Free Democrats (21.9%) and the Christian Democratic Union (21.5%) showed notable support for xenophobic positions.

Source: Daily Sabah

Laura Loomer, the well-known anti-Muslim extremist and Donald Trump sycophant, rode in the former president’s jet to the debate Tuesday, a shocking, if not surprising, embrace by Trump of one of the most blatant, open bigots in American public life.

Fox News broadcast footage of Trump’s campaign plane touching down for the debate in Philadelphia, with Loomer exiting the plane a few minutes ahead of the former president. Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Trump has been close with Loomer for years and has repeatedly praised her, including when she won the Republican primary for an ultimately doomed 2020 congressional race.

Loomer has called Muslims “savages,” celebrated the deaths of migrants and called Islam a “cancer” and has used the hashtag “#proudislamophobe.”

“I’m pro-white nationalism,” the anti-Muslim activist, who is Jewish, said in 2017. She added that “this country really was built as the white Judeo-Christian ethnostate” and that immigration and calls for diversity were “starting to destroy this country.”

Loomer was barred from both Uber and Lyft in 2017 after writing on Twitter (now X) that “someone needs to create a non Islamic form of Uber or Lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver.”

“I don’t care about Christ Church,” she wrote separately after a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in two mosques in New Zealand.

She has also called for Democrats to be executed for treason.

Loomer’s racism, of course, extends to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president.

“If Kamala Harris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand,” she wrote Tuesday.