Dems hammer Mace for saying all Muslims in public office are 'a trojan horse'
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., asserted that all Muslim public servants in the U.S. pose a threat to the nation.
"Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a trojan horse, and a threat to both national security and our republic," Mace declared in a Friday post on X. "We refuse to be silent."
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., condemned Mace's comments and insisted that Republicans should do so as well.
"This is absolutely disgusting and dangerous. Republicans must denounce this blatant Islamophobia. To Muslim communities across America: I will always stand with you," Jayapal wrote in a Saturday post on X.
Mace, in part of a post replying to Jayapal, wrote, "Islam must be confronted and Islam must be removed from civil society in the US."
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California state Sen. Scott Wiener, who is running for the U.S. House in San Francisco, wrote, "Nancy Mace is on yet another bender demonizing Muslims and advocating to strip them of full citizenship. She is a vile person."
Owen Jones, a British man who describes himself on X as a "Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places," shared Mace's post and wrote in a Saturday post, "This is a Republican Congresswoman. If she spoke like this about Jewish Americans, she would right be regarded as a loud-and-proud Nazi. Islamophobia is spiralling out of control in the US."
Mace shared Jones' post and wrote on Sunday, "If not wanting to be blown up, stabbed, or rammed by a car by a radical Islamist in the United States of America makes us Islamophobes, then so be it."
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Mace, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021, ran unsuccessfully in the Republican South Carolina gubernatorial primary this year.