Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly on Tuesday condemned Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) for a controversial statement he made about Muslims.
Kelly told Fine to “f*** off” in response to a social media post Fine made over the weekend that said, “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.” Fine asked if Kelly had “figured it out yet” after she quoted the post with “wtf is this.”
“What I figured out, you pathetic sweaty man, is when an idiot Muslim says ‘no dogs in NYC,’ instead of attacking the person or the policy, you went full bigot,” Kelly wrote in a post to X.
Fine made the controversial statement in the context of his accusation that the leader of a Palestinian group with ties to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggested dogs should be banned indoors because they are unclean, in accordance with Islamic law. Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani later said her comments were satirical, aimed at reports of New York dog owners not picking up their pets’ waste. She accused Fine of spreading a “genocidal statement about me.”
“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,” she said in her original post to X.
Fine alleged Kiswani’s position was that “dogs should be forbidden from New York City because, to some Muslims, it bothers them,” criticizing the “key Mamdani advisor” and saying, “We will not be shamed into being conquered like the Europeans.”
“If they’re going to make us choose between dogs and them [Muslims] going home, the choice is easy,” Fine added during a Newsmax interview.
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His comments have invited a flood of criticism, including from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who described the statement as an “unacceptable and revolting Islamophobic comment.”
In response to Goldman, Fine said, “I’d think your New York constituents would want to keep their dogs.”