{"id":68527,"date":"2026-03-09T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/tennessee-republican-draws-criticism-from-democrats-for-islamophobic-rant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:40:40","slug":"tennessee-republican-draws-criticism-from-democrats-for-islamophobic-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/tennessee-republican-draws-criticism-from-democrats-for-islamophobic-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republican draws criticism from Democrats for Islamophobic rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Ogles posted \u2018Muslims don\u2019t belong in American society,\u2019 among other statements, prompting Cair to call him an \u2018anti-Muslim extremist\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Andy Ogles, a Republican representative of Tennessee, spent Monday on an Islamophobic rant, writing on social media: \u201cMuslims don\u2019t belong in American society,\u201d among other statements that drew heated criticism from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of them belong here,\u201d Ogles wrote in one of several posts on X, next to the mugshots of people he identified as being from Somalia and Senegal, the latter of whom was killed by police after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/austin-bar-shooting-investigation-potential-terrorism\">a mass shooting<\/a> last week in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/09\/tennessee-republican-islamophobic-rant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Ogles posted \u2018Muslims don\u2019t belong in American society,\u2019 among other statements, prompting Cair to call him an \u2018anti-Muslim extremist\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Andy Ogles, a Republican representative of Tennessee, spent Monday on an Islamophobic rant, writing on social media: \u201cMuslims don\u2019t belong &#8230; <a title=\"Tennessee Republican draws criticism from Democrats for Islamophobic rant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/tennessee-republican-draws-criticism-from-democrats-for-islamophobic-rant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tennessee Republican draws criticism from Democrats for Islamophobic rant\">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-68527","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\/68527","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=68527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}