{"id":78619,"date":"2026-09-13T05:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/its-just-straight-bigotry-trump-leads-wave-of-islamophobic-rhetoric-as-midterms-loom\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:54:44","slug":"its-just-straight-bigotry-trump-leads-wave-of-islamophobic-rhetoric-as-midterms-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/its-just-straight-bigotry-trump-leads-wave-of-islamophobic-rhetoric-as-midterms-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s just straight bigotry\u2019: Trump leads wave of Islamophobic rhetoric as midterms loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Muslims win historic victories, experts describe rise in anti-Islamic sentiment that rivals post-9\/11 climate<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s victory in Michigan\u2019s Democratic US Senate primary, Republican senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama declared that the party had \u201cjust voted to send a TERRORIST\u201d to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed \u2013 or \u201cAbdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed\u201d, as Tuberville <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenTuberville\/status\/2085055472634114085\">called him<\/a> on X \u2013 was a \u201cRADICAL ISLAMIST\u201d who would \u201cdo everything he can to destroy America\u201d, he claimed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/13\/republicans-islamophobic-rhetoric-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Muslims win historic victories, experts describe rise in anti-Islamic sentiment that rivals post-9\/11 climate Within hours of Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s victory in Michigan\u2019s Democratic US Senate primary, Republican senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama declared that the party had \u201cjust voted to send a TERRORIST\u201d to Washington. El-Sayed \u2013 or \u201cAbdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed\u201d, as Tuberville called &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s just straight bigotry\u2019: Trump leads wave of Islamophobic rhetoric as midterms loom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/its-just-straight-bigotry-trump-leads-wave-of-islamophobic-rhetoric-as-midterms-loom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s just straight bigotry\u2019: Trump leads wave of Islamophobic rhetoric as midterms loom\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78619","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=78619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}