GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama added his voice to the chorus of bigots lamenting the recent election of Democrat Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s next mayor.

“We’re in a different country, Steve. This is a different time. We just saw what happened in New York, we lost New York, it will be completely Muslim in three or four years—that’s what they want,” he said Friday on former Trump aide and conspiracy theorist Steve Bannon’s podcast.

Tuberville’s statement assumes that it’s somehow a bad thing if there are a lot of Muslim people in New York. To be clear, the United States is a nation where the First Amendment—which he swore to defend in Congress—protects freedom of religion and where at least 4.5 million Muslim people live, more than 724,000 of which live in the state of New York

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