A record 7 Muslims were elected in the Democrat landslide in the 2026 Midterm Elections and the conservative media echo chamber must be hard at work at frightening Americans into believing that this country is on the verge of changing to a Muslim nation.
What I am now hearing on my talk show on WWL in New Orleans and on Scoot On The Air social media is that America is headed for Muslim rule. And any retort to that notion is met with an accusation of being naive. I’m not naive and I’m not saying this because I’m defending Democrats or Muslims. I’m saying this because I don’t understand this irrational fear.
Of the 435 members of the House of Representatives - only 6 Muslims will be serving. How will 6 Muslims even have the numbers to force change - if that is even their goal?
Among the 100 members of the Senate - only 1 Muslim will be serving. How will this 1 Muslim bring about a Muslim revolution?
The current fear over a Muslim takeover of America should bring back memories of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy - who between 1950 and 1954 - went on a vicious rampage to out and punish communists in America. This was during the Cold War and the fear of the spread of communism was a reality.
Many Hollywood elites were targeted as commies or commie-sympathizers. The list included: Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Lee Grant, John Garfield, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, and Leonard Bernstein. No members of Hollywood were ever found guilty of being a communist.
By 1954 - the public hearings into the claims by Sen. McCarthy exposed the fraud that McCarthy was and that his fear-mongering of a communist takeover of America was conjured up in the Senator’s mind. McCarthy was censured in 1954.
Is the same thing happening today with the new fear of Muslims taking over America? There are no concrete signs of this happening and the Muslim scare can be compared to the McCarthy commie scare in the 1950s. Either Americans forgot history or never learned it. But in our representative form of government there is no reason to believe that Muslims will take over America. I had one text to my talk show Thursday warning about what has happened in Muslim countries. How could anyone logically compare the Muslim influence in Muslim countries to Muslim influence in America?
Keith Ellison was the first Muslim elected to office and that was in 2006. In 2019 - Ellison was elected to be the Attorney General of Minnesota and in the Midterm Elections of 2026 was reelected after defeating the Republican challenger - Ron Schutz.
Another point of attack from the right is that all of the Muslims recently elected are Democrats. However, the first Muslim nominated to be a Senator was Mehmet Oz - Dr. Oz - who lost to the Democrat challenger John Fetterman.
The fear surrounding Muslims who were recently is the creation of President Trump’s remaining devout followers. It is an attempt to instill fear in Americans that his outside force has infiltrated this country and will work to bring Muslim rule to America.
Some on the right are blaming the Muslims for getting into power. The Muslim candidates won fair elections when American voters voted for them over the Republican challengers. Anyone who does not understand that the Democrat earthquake that occurred was the result of a mass number of Americans voting against President Trump and the extreme right.
It’s not like the Muslims used force to get into power - they were voted on by American voters. In many cases - Republicans voted for the more extreme right-wing candidates to go up against their Democrat challengers - but voters were crying out for change and the Republican candidates that were nominated were not as attractive as the Democrats/Muslim candidates. So, the Republicans lost.
This massive victory for Democrats was a vote against Trump and right-wing Republicans. In response - now there is a desperate effort to discredit ALL Democrats and connect them to the few Muslims who won. But remember - the Democrats and the Muslims among them - did not force their way into office - they were all elected by the American people who were rejecting the words and actions of President Trump and wanted change. In many cases - the Muslim candidates might have seemed a bit extreme - but they were more attractive to the American voters than the Republican candidates.
And how will a total of 7 Muslims elected among the 535 members of Congress - get their way and change America. If that’s even their goal.
