By Pedro Rodriguez, The Daily Signal | June 23, 2026
After House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries refused to answer the Daily Signal’s question on his party’s pro-radical Islam problem, conservative lawmakers exclusively told the outlet that this is a result of “importing people that hate America.”
“The Democrats have nominated a Nazi and an al-Qaeda terrorist; the Democratic Party has fetishized Islamic terrorism,” Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., told the Daily Signal regarding Graham Platner, the Senate candidate in Maine, and Adam Hamawy, the House candidate in New Jersey.
“I feel bad for the transgenders; they used to be the Democrats’ favorite people. Now it’s radical Islamists,” he added.
Fine, a member of the congressional Sharia-Free America Caucus, called the Democratic Party a “mainstream, antisemitic pro-Muslim party.”
“Look how aggressively they fought to protect Iran,” he added. “I don’t see Democrats fighting hard to keep it out of their party as hard as I fight to keep it out of mine.”
Over 50 Democrats voted against a resolution to designate Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. Iranian-sponsored terrorists have killed an estimated 40,000 protesters in 2026 alone, and the country is responsible for arming proxy groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, who rape and kill young Israeli girls.
Fine compared the major religions, saying Christianity and Judaism allow freedom of religion, but Islam does not.
“When your civil rights group is a terrorist threat group, [and] when your top politicians are Rashida Tlaib, Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, and Ilhan Omar—people who downplay radical Islam—you have lost the battle,” Fine continued.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, has been accused by conservatives of acting as a front for radical Islamic terrorism. The group continues to lobby Congress. In April, CAIR visited over 210 congressional offices in one day.
Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, echoed Fine’s assessment.
“They [radical Islamists] have gone from the accommodation phase to the intimidation phase. The next phase is taking political power,” Self told the Daily Signal. “Once they get political power, they are going to, under our very generous laws, enact legislation that goes against the U.S. Constitution.”
“This goes hand-in-hand with [Democrats’] hatred towards Israel,” Self, co-founder of the Sharia-Free America Caucus, added.
“Support for Israel used to be a bipartisan issue. Now it is hard to find a pro-Israel party,” he continued. “We are losing the race to stop the Islamification of America. We are going to have to enlist governors, because they have more power on the ground than the federal government does. The law is not being enforced.
Pedro Boccalato Rodriguez-Aparicio is a journalism fellow at the Daily Signal.
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