The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to condemn and call for the resignation of Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) after his latest racist remarks about Muslims and Palestinians.
In recent days, Fine has declared “Palestinian” identity evil and compared Muslims unfavorably to dogs. He has previously called for the destruction of all “mainstream Muslims” and the genocide of everyone in Gaza.
An article in Newsweek stated:
“California Governor Gavin Newsom has called on Representative Randy Fine of Florida to resign over comments the Republican made about Muslims.
“’If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,’ Fine wrote on X on Sunday.”
Governor Newsom responded, “Resign now, you racist slob.”
SEE: Gavin Newsom Demands ‘Racist Slob’ Randy Fine Resign – Newsweek
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In a statement, CAIR said:
“Between his call for the destruction of all ‘mainstream Muslims,’ his claim that Palestinian identity itself is evil, and his call for the killing of everyone in Gaza, Randy Fine is a modern Klansman and Nazi all wrapped into one, only his targets are Muslims and Palestinians. Leaders of Congress across the political spectrum should demand his resignation, which is long overdue.”
CAIR previously called on U.S. House leaders and members to demand the resignation of Rep. Fine after he posted a “deranged” call for the destruction of all “mainstream Muslims.”
Washington, D.C., based CAIR has repeatedly condemned Rep. Fine’s racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate rhetoric.
SEE: Islamophobic Individual: Randy Fine
Last year, CAIR and CAIR Action, its associated 501(c)(4) policy and advocacy arm, sent a joint letter to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calling on him to support the pursuit of a censure resolution against Rep. Fine over his longstanding pattern of violent, hateful rhetoric against Muslim members of Congress and to take steps to address the broader climate of Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism that House leadership has failed to challenge previously.
BACKGROUNDER:
In response to an X (formerly Twitter) post with an image of a Palestinian infant reportedly killed by an Israeli air strike, Fine responded with “Thanks for the pic!”
Fine defended the bombing of a building with American journalists inside, publicly responding “Yes!” to a post inquiring if it was okay that reporters were among the targets.
In another incident, he privately wrote “Go blow yourself up!” to a Florida Muslim after they challenged his social media posts, calling on an Islamophobic trope that Muslims are prone to violence or suicide bombings.
In December 2023, as Palestinians awaited much-needed humanitarian aid, Fine mocked them, posting on his X account, “Stop the trucks. Let them eat rockets. There are plenty of those. #BombsAway.”
In September 2024, Fine brazenly celebrated the recent killing of 26-year-old Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, writing that it was “One less #MuslimTerrorist,” and further promoted violence against American citizens, encouraging the Israeli government to “#FireAway.”
In November 2024, Fine warned Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that they should “consider leaving before [he] gets there,” followed by “#BombsAway,” an open threat against two Muslim members of Congress.
Later, in 2025, Fine wrote to Tlaib again, calling her a “Muslim terrorist” and once more endorsed withholding aid from starving Palestinian civilians to whom Tlaib called attention.
Fine’s blatant Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian bigotry extend beyond members of Congress.
In another X post from January 2025, Fine wrote that he was working on “the need to solve America’s #MuslimProblem,” invoking a common Islamophobic stereotype that an entire religious community poses a threat to American national security.
In March 2025, while serving in the Florida State Senate, Fine told a member of the public wearing a keffiyeh, a symbol of Palestinian culture, to “enjoy your terrorist rag” and defended his anti-Palestinian remarks by claiming: “I’m the chairman, I can say whatever I want.” Later, Fine’s rhetoric escalated, as he publicly called “for all ‘Palestinian’ organizations to be federally-designated terror organizations” in a post on X.
In May 2025, Fine suggested on national television that the United States should use nuclear weapons against Gaza, invoking the atomic bombings of Japan as a model for dealing with Palestinians. When asked to explain this genocidal rhetoric, he doubled down with a racist and dehumanizing response, claiming that half of Gaza’s population is “married to their cousins” and has “mental defects,” and that “you’ve got to have a mental defect to interpret the comment that way.”
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