{"id":66494,"date":"2026-02-16T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/republican-congressmans-anti-muslim-remark-prompts-calls-for-his-resignation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:04:35","slug":"republican-congressmans-anti-muslim-remark-prompts-calls-for-his-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/republican-congressmans-anti-muslim-remark-prompts-calls-for-his-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican congressman&#8217;s anti-Muslim remark prompts calls for his resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., prompted calls for his resignation from Democrats and a major Islamic civil rights group after suggesting in a social media post that he&#8217;d choose dogs over Muslims.&#8221;If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,&#8221; Fine posted to the social media platform X on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., prompted calls for his resignation from Democrats and a major Islamic civil rights group after suggesting in a social media post that he&#8217;d choose dogs over Muslims.&#8221;If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,&#8221; Fine posted to the social media platform X &#8230; <a title=\"Republican congressman&#8217;s anti-Muslim remark prompts calls for his resignation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/republican-congressmans-anti-muslim-remark-prompts-calls-for-his-resignation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican congressman&#8217;s anti-Muslim remark prompts calls for his resignation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}