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Republican lawmakers are seizing on Sunday’s tragic mass shooting in Bondi Beach, Australia to call for Muslims in America to face collective punishment, in yet another example of the right’s ongoing campaign of Islamophobia.

In a post on X on Sunday, just hours after the shooting was first reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) wrote that all Muslims should be deported.

“Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult,” he said. “Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”

“The mass migration of Islamic extremists destroyed Europe. Now, are [sic] witnessing it destroy Australia. We CANNOT allow it to destroy America,” Tuberville added in a second post shortly after.

Though Tuberville almost immediately seized on the attack to incite violence against Muslims, little is known about the shooters, identified by some sources as a father and son duo, Naveed and Sajid Akram.

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