Where’s the outrage when US leaders spew Islamophobia? — SkimNews
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- RFK Jr., campaigning in Michigan for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, said Arabs “don’t produce science, they don’t produce literature, and they don’t win Nobel Prizes or other prestigious international awards”; the article cites Ahmed Zewail, Naguib Mahfouz, Tawakkol Karman and 2025 chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi as counterexamples.
- Trump repeatedly called Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “Mohammad,” said “I’m the president. I can call him whatever the hell I want,” accused him of being a “Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist” and said El-Sayed would have to pass a metal detector before entering the Senate.
- Ted Cruz announced at a Michigan campaign event that his nickname for El-Sayed was “the jihadist leprechaun” and warned that El-Sayed could pass classified intelligence to terrorists; El-Sayed has repeatedly denied any connection to the Muslim Brotherhood.
- Nancy Mace declared that “Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a Trojan Horse, and a threat to both national security and our republic,” while the article asks how such language would be received if directed at Jewish officials.
- Andy Ogles said on March 9, 2026, that “Muslims don’t belong in American society” and “Pluralism is a lie,” advocated stripping naturalized Muslims of citizenship and deporting them, called New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani “little Muhammad” and demanded his deportation.
- Tommy Tuberville posted a photo of Mamdani celebrating Ramadan beside images of the September 11 attacks with the caption “The enemy is inside the gates”; Mace also linked Mamdani to 9/11, while Elise Stefanik called him a “jihadist.”
- CAIR’s 2026 Civil Rights Report recorded 8,683 complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination in 2025—the highest annual total since it began collecting the figures in 1996; the author counts 14 congressional hearings on antisemitism over the past two years, compared with two on anti-Arab hate and Islamophobia.
Why it matters: The clearest institutional disparity is quantitative: the author counts 14 antisemitism hearings over two years but only two on anti-Arab hate and Islamophobia, while CAIR logged 8,683 complaints in 2025. For Muslim and Arab Americans, that gap pairs a documented rise in discrimination with markedly less congressional attention.
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