The national headquarters and Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said any congressional effort to censure Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) should address all of his past racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian, and genocidal statements, not just his most recent bigoted post comparing Muslims unfavorably to dogs. CAIR also reiterated its call for House leaders, including Speaker Mike Johnson, to demand his resignation.
SEE: Dems eye forced vote to censure Randy Fine – Axios
US lawmaker Fine criticized by rights advocates, Democrats after anti-Muslim remarks – Reuters
Even Megyn Kelly comes for Randy Fine in the wake of his anti-Muslim social media post – The Independent
Earlier this week, CAIR called on Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to call for Rep. Fine’s resignation over his post about dogs and Muslims.
In a statement, Washington, D.C., based CAIR and CAIR-FL said:
“Censure is the minimum consequence that Randy Fine should face, and any censure motion must not focus only on his bigoted remark about Muslims and dogs. Mr. Fine must be censured for his long history of racist and even violent rhetoric toward Muslims and Palestinians.
“Over the past two years, Randy Fine has called for all mainstream Muslims to be destroyed, declared that Palestinian identity itself is evil, welcomed a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, called for nuking Gaza, and implicitly threatened to bomb Muslim members of Congress, among many other statements worthy of censure.
“Focusing only on Randy Fine’s post about Muslims and dogs allows him to debate this one comment while ignoring all of his other, even more vile statements about religious and racial minorities. Any censure motion must be comprehensive.
“We reiterate our call on all congressional leaders – especially Speaker Johnson – to break their silence, condemn Randy Fine, demand his resignation, and support a motion to censure him.”
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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CONTACT: Wilfredo A. Ruiz, CAIR-Florida Communications Director, 305-502-6749, wruiz@cair.com; Chelsea Mandrigues, Communications Coordinator, 813-705-5440, cmandrigues@cair.com; CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com