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Leftist Outrage Mob Comes for Congressman Who Loves Dogs
Front Page Magazine ^ | 18 Feb, 2026 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/18/2026 12:44:02 PM PST by MtnClimber

Apparently, Americans must give up their dogs to avoid appearing “Islamophobic.”

Outrage against Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) is the left’s outrage du jour. The rage mob swung into action after Fine wrote: “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”

Yeah, that was it. He didn’t say “Kill them all” or even “Deport them all.” He didn’t recommend any action at all. He was actually responding to an X post from far-left, pro-Hamas activist Nerdeen Kiswani. In response to a news item about two grocery stores removing people with dogs, Kiswani wrote: “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”

Kiswani herself got some heat for this, and retreated into claiming lamely that it was a “joke.” The joke, however, happens to accord fully with Islamic law, which forbids ownership of dogs except for hunting. Islam hates dogs, and New York City now has an observant Muslim mayor who is friendly to Kiswani. She seems to have wanted to give him a little nudge in the direction of Sharia.

One Islamic tradition states that angels avoid visiting homes where there are dogs: “Once Gabriel promised the Prophet (that he would visit him, but Gabriel did not come) and later on he said, ‘We, angels, do not enter a house which contains a picture or a dog.’” (Sahih Bukhari 4.54.50)

Another records that Muhammad ordered that dogs be killed: “Abdullah (b. Umar) reported: Allah’s Messenger ordered the killing of dogs and we would send (men) in Medina and its corners and we did not spare any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert.” (Sahih Muslim 3811)

Yet another states: “Ibn Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah ordered killing of the dogs, and then said: What about them, i. e. about other dogs? and then granted concession (to keep) the dog for hunting and the dog for (the security) of the herd, and said: When the dog licks the utensil, wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time.” (Sahih Muslim 551)

But the response to Fine makes it clear that leftists believe that Muslims add so very much to American society that if Muslims want us to give up our dogs, we must comply with alacrity. NBC News reported Monday that “in a statement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations pointed to its previous condemnation’s [sic] of Fine’s past comments on Gaza and Hamas, adding that ‘leaders of Congress across the political spectrum should demand his resignation, which is long overdue.’”

Well! If the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) demands your resignation, leftist officials will line up to demand it as well. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California SSR) raged at Fine’s “disgusting Islamophobia and dangerous bigotry” and added dutifully that “he should be forced to resign.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) demanded that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “reprimand” Fine “immediately,” and claimed that he had “repeatedly dehumanized Muslims without consequence.”

Not to be outdone, the destroyer of California, 2028 presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom, gave Fine a sterling example of his eloquence and graciousness: “Resign now, you racist slob.”

Like virtually all leftists, Newsom doggedly pretends that Islam is a race or Muslims are all of one race. In reality, there are Muslims, and Islamic jihadis, of all races. And what everyone who is charging Fine with “Islamophobia” and “bigotry” is ignoring is the fact that Islamic law, Sharia, is political, supremacist, expansionary, and violent. If we continue to ignore this fact, we will be subsumed under its hegemony, and our new overlords will not hesitate to engage in acts against us that leftists term “bigotry” today, but won’t be doing so then.

Also, there are the obvious rejoinders to all the faux outrage over Fine’s statement: dogs never flew any planes into buildings, women don’t have to fear rape by dogs when they go out at night, dogs aren’t declaring their imminent takeover and the subjugation of the natives, and on and on. No leftist, of course, will acknowledge any of that. In raging at Fine, they’re busy pretending that Islam is no more dangerous than Methodism, and that it’s all about disliking “brown people.”

This strategy will backfire on them, and it will do so, paradoxically, right at its moment of victory, when leftists discover, to their horror, that the “Islamophobes” were right, and the leftists themselves are the next jihadi target.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: dogfreezones; doggie; dogs; finewithfine; jihad; leftism; moslem; puppies; randyfine; unclean

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To: combat_boots

TBH, 3 million stray dogs in a country of 38 million is a lot of stray dogs. Morocco has 20 cases of human rabies a year and 100,000 dog bites a year.

They have a problem with feral dogs. What should they do about it?


21 posted on 02/18/2026 1:22:31 PM PST by Valpal1 (Yes, I did vote for this!)
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To: Salamander
Democrats hate dogs.

Because dogs are good judges of character.

22 posted on 02/18/2026 1:26:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: virgil

Snakes, spiders, possums, weasels.


23 posted on 02/18/2026 1:26:29 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: Valpal1

I don’t know. Over in Crete, I follow Takis and his dog/cat shelter. People toss away and neglect dogs like crazy.

I don’t know the answer.


24 posted on 02/18/2026 1:26:32 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: MinorityRepublican

“So people on the Left are willing to lose their dogs just not to offend Muslims?”

They’re willing to allow horrible things done to their own children not to offend Muslims, so there’s that.

I hope there are animal protection organizations who can step in to rescue discarded pets.


25 posted on 02/18/2026 1:26:45 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: combat_boots

And yes, I’m a dog lover.


26 posted on 02/18/2026 1:27:04 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots

Where’s Vlad when we need him?


27 posted on 02/18/2026 1:27:38 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: qam1

The majority of dog rescue groups are stone cold liberals.

I wonder how they will reconcile this in their little brains.


28 posted on 02/18/2026 1:29:42 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: Salamander

“The majority of dog rescue groups are stone cold liberals.

I wonder how they will reconcile this in their little brains.”

They will be euthanizing them like they do every day.
At least from what I understand. Aren’t there dogs
being euthanized every day?

Aren’t the stone cold liberals doing it?
Of course, my understanding could be wrong.


29 posted on 02/18/2026 1:34:32 PM PST by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: Skwor

I made my own shirts and based on public opinion I could start my own cult. 😆

https://postimg.cc/mPZbjsCf


30 posted on 02/18/2026 1:35:27 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: MtnClimber

Exactly.


31 posted on 02/18/2026 1:36:09 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: missthethunder

Not the rescuers I know.

They go above and beyond to save even the worst lost cause dogs.

This is gonna stick in their gizzards.


32 posted on 02/18/2026 1:38:54 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: combat_boots

Well, I do. “Nature is red in tooth and claw.”

Reality sucks but it must be acknowledged and dealt with. No human settlement should tolerate a large population of feral animals that carry rabies.

You kill them by any and all means possible until the problem is contained. Poor countries will use the cheapest methods available. It’s ugly and unpleasant as is the case with many things. 1st world pearl-clutching is useless.

Be grateful our country isn’t a poor shithole country. (yet).


33 posted on 02/18/2026 1:50:24 PM PST by Valpal1 (Yes, I did vote for this!)
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To: MtnClimber

Oh, enough of this. Just get all the Muslims out of this country. They’re not compatible with us.


34 posted on 02/18/2026 2:05:45 PM PST by Nea Wood ( I remember America.)
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To: MtnClimber; MinorityRepublican; MrRelevant; NorthMountain; combat_boots; Skwor; Steely Tom; TLI; ...

Amelia - In Dogs We Trust

https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=GL6smunQE3U


35 posted on 02/18/2026 2:18:55 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: Salamander

Minks, voles, muskies, chinchillas, horseshoe crabs. Lol. 😁


36 posted on 02/18/2026 2:34:17 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: virgil

Fleas, ticks, wasps, slugs.

😁


37 posted on 02/18/2026 6:24:31 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: virgil

Last year I caught a Fisher on my gate camera.

Seems we’re lousy with them but I’ve never seen one before.

They’re BIG.
Mega-weasels!

So cool!

Let’s add them to the list.

😊


38 posted on 02/18/2026 6:27:14 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: MtnClimber

You must choose between man’s best friend and man’s worst enemy.

Easy choice.


39 posted on 02/18/2026 6:27:53 PM PST by unlearner (See my about page for "God's Promises During Tribulation".)
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To: an amused spectator

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40 posted on 02/18/2026 6:30:16 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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