Tennessee Republican draws criticism from Democrats for Islamophobic rant
by Chris Stein from US news | The Guardian on (#7447P)
Andy Ogles posted Muslims don't belong in American society,' among other statements, prompting Cair to call him an anti-Muslim extremist'
Andy Ogles, a Republican representative of Tennessee, spent Monday on an Islamophobic rant, writing on social media: Muslims don't belong in American society," among other statements that drew heated criticism from Democrats.
None of them belong here," Ogles wrote in one of several posts on X, next to the mugshots of people he identified as being from Somalia and Senegal, the latter of whom was killed by police after a mass shooting last week in Austin, Texas.
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