“Where are the Muslims calling out the other Muslims who engage in violent rhetoric? Where are they?”

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Randy Fine is no stranger to headlines. When he declared his candidacy in the special election to fill former national security advisor Mike Waltz’s House seat in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, the Orlando Republican announced on X that “the Hebrew Hammer is coming.” During the campaign, Fine, then a Florida state senator, repeatedly referred to his progressive Democratic opponent, Josh Weil, as “Jihad Josh.”

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.

How do we defeat evil, at this point?

It starts with recognizing that we have a Muslim problem. It starts with recognizing that that violent Islam is not the exception. Peaceful Islam is the exception. We have gotten it entirely wrong. It starts with acknowledging that Gaza is a cesspool of evil. It includes acknowledging that the vast majority of the people who engaged in atrocities on October 7 were not card-carrying members of Hamas, that the problem is not Hamas. The problem is Gaza, Arabs. It starts with being willing to tell the truth.

These people want to kill us. They do it, and we pretend it doesn’t happen.

I mean, how do you defeat an evil that would sacrifice its own children just to make the other side look bad?

Well, for starters, you take that leverage away from them. You refuse to allow emotional terrorism to get you. See, I don’t feel badly when human shields are killed, because it’s not our fault. The responsibility for that is with the terrorists. So we allow them to terrorize us when we allow ourselves to be pushed onto their playing field. I would say, “If you use human shields, well, that’s on you. Sorry.”

By the way, the idea of sacrifice is not unusual. Japanese kamikaze in World War II also did suicide attacks.

I think if we fight these wars on the battlefield as the Muslim terrorists are laying it out, manipulating our values, this will continue until we say we are going to reject the premise of the fight. If you use human shields, that’s your problem, not ours, and we’re not going to apologize for it. If you don’t want a war, don’t take hostages. If you want food, release the hostages. We don’t care what happens to the enemy, because the enemy doesn’t care what happens to the enemy. So why should we?

They ought to reject the premise of the enemy. It is not the West’s job to feed terrorists. It is not the West’s job to provide electricity to terrorists. It’s not the West’s job to provide water to terrorists. It is the West’s job to do one thing and one thing only: win. I believe the war would have been over a lot quicker had they not done this half-heartedly.

The biggest issue we have is a refusal on the part of the West to make a few simple statements. Number one, there is evil in this world, we do not share the same values, and all cultures are not equal. There was a time in this world when there were cultures that said eating people was okay. Now, in 2025, the progressive left would say, “Well, we must respect that. Would you like an arm or a leg?”

You’re being quoted as saying you want to nuke Gaza.

Again, that’s Muslim terrorists engaging in Muslim terror. Any reasonable person who listened to my interview [on Fox News] understood what I was saying, which is, we said Japan must be defeated. When they wouldn’t surrender, we nuked them. When they wouldn’t surrender again, we nuked them again. And then they surrendered.

I don’t know what the equivalent action is for Gaza. What I’m saying is Israel needs to take whatever steps it needs to take in order to win. And again, this is another form of Muslim terror. Informational terror. They know that’s not what I said. If Israel were to nuke Gaza, the radiation would just come across the border. It doesn’t even make sense. But again, we’re talking about people who marry their cousins, retardation is common.

What do you make of the anti-Hamas protesters in Gaza? Do you buy that?

I’m glad they’re doing it. I want to be clear — I don’t think every Muslim is a terrorist. I think the problem is that we talk about it as though 1% are terrorists, and the other 99% are these normal, peace-loving people. Our problem is that we describe it as an “extremist element,” at the percentages that they make up. It’s not an extremist element — violent Islam is mainstream.

Here’s proof. The civil rights organization for Muslims in the United States is the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR. It is unquestionably a terrorist organization, a terrorist front. The leader of CAIR stood up after October 7 and talked about how happy it made him, and he still has the job. So CAIR is a violent Muslim terror organization.

Now, if violent Muslim terror were not mainstream Islam, don’t you think there’d be another major national Muslim civil rights organization? I mean, I wouldn’t want that if I was Muslim. I’d be like, I don’t want you to speak for me. Let’s create another one.

So how do we fight back against it?

In the United States, the nexus of Muslim terror is in our universities, which are federally funded. So this guy [the Washington shooter] who did this thing, we paid for it. We paid for him to be brainwashed, and we’ve got to stop it.

We have to do what the Trump administration did with Harvard. No more foreigners at our universities. If you are going to come to our university to get an education, you are coming as a guest. Someone does not get to come into my house and then run their mouths about how I run it. If you come to our country to get an education, you should keep your mouth shut. Get your education and leave.

You have no right to get a visa or to get an education in the United States — there is no constitutional right to come to our country. It does not exist. We have the right as a nation to place conditions on those who wish to come visit our country, and one of those conditions can be, “If you come, you will keep your mouth shut, and there’s absolutely nothing whatsoever unconstitutional about it.”

And what about the foreign students that are currently here already?

Expel them all. My understanding is that all of them, as a condition of getting their visas, made the commitment that they would not engage in political protesting. That is already in the paperwork they signed.

I think it’s time for us to tackle this problem head on. Enough lip service. Yeah, it is time to acknowledge that there is a Muslim problem in America. That does not mean every Muslim is a problem. In the same way, the Democrats like to talk about a white supremacy problem — I don’t think they’re saying every white person is a white supremacist, right?

Where were all the Muslim marches after October 7, saying, “This is terrible, what you did in our name”? Where are the Muslims calling out the other Muslims who engage in violent rhetoric? Where are they?

Where do you think this all ends?

One side is going to win. You listen to a lot of these imams in the United States — they talk about the caliphate, sharia law, and conquest. They know what they’re doing, they know what they want, and what’s crazy is, they don’t actually even hide it. Our side just chooses to say, “Oh, they don’t mean it.”

Does Western civilization deserve to survive?

Well, I hope it does. I mean, I’m going to fight for it to survive, but it is at real risk.

What kind of action did you take in the Florida state senate?

I passed a bill that said you’ll treat anti-Semitism as racism on your college campuses. I banned all kinds of anti-Semitic actions — not speech, but actions. We said, “If you target someone because they’re wearing a kippah, it’s a hate crime.” We said, “You can’t block the road.”

That’s one of their favorite little tools. If you encounter a street demonstration in Florida and somebody is blocking the street, you can run them over.

I’m going to do this nationwide. I will get it done.

(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 1063)