The Members of Congress Openly Attacking Muslim Americans

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No one could accuse Representative Andy Ogles of using dog whistles. The Tennessee Republican prefers a bullhorn.

“Muslims don’t belong in American society,” Ogles wrote on X on Monday. “Pluralism is a lie.”

The statement’s open bigotry is jarring. Where American Islamophobes in the...