“Violent Islam Is Not the Exception” — Congressman Randy Fine

Now, just weeks after being sworn into Congress following his victory in that race, Fine is making the news with his outspoken views on national security and cultural conflicts. And after last week’s deadly terror attack in Washington, D.C., in which a pro-Palestinian activist shot Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim to death outside the National Museum of American Jewish History, Fine isn’t mincing words.

In an interview with Mishpacha, Fine takes aim at what he labels a decades-long refusal to confront the roots of radical Islamist violence and calls for a national reckoning. From US immigration policy to campus protests and Gaza’s future, Fine offers an unapologetically blunt take on what it will take to win what he sees as a civilizational war.

Let’s talk about last week’s terror attack in our nation’s capital.

They said they wanted a “global Intifada.” Here it is. There’s a lot of people with blood on their hands today. We as a country have to decide if we’re going to begin to speak the truth about Muslim terror, or if we’re going to continue to live in the fantasy land that we have lived in for decades now.

There is a fundamentally broken culture that is fundamentally built on evil. We are not one giant human family, we can’t all work out our differences around the drum circle. Sometimes you must defeat evil, and we as a society have been unwilling to do that. In fact, we have coddled it.