Everything Nancy Mace Has Said About Muslims

"Go back to that country of origin. It doesn't need to be here."

That is Rep. Nancy Mace on CNN Newsroom, Aug. 9, 2026, in an interview with Omar Jimenez. The film opens on it. It then goes back to 2021 and plays, in order, what she has said about Muslims and Islam on television, on X and on her own show.

She says she means radical Islam and elected officials, and that she does not hate all Muslims. Her defenses are in this record in her own words, beside the quotes they answer. This documentary, in nine chapters, adds no opinion of its own. The Short plays above; the full film is on the Maceopedia YouTube channel. Every quote below is verbatim, with the speaker, outlet and date.

Video in the film: CNN Newsroom (posted by Omar Jimenez on X); Piers Morgan Uncensored; Newsmax; Fox Business (clip via Raw Story); CBS News, Face the Nation; ABC News 4 (WCIV), Charleston; The Ops Desk with Paul Mauro; Get Maced with Nancy Mace. Fact checks: PolitiFact; the federal record on Dylann Roof; Girl Scouts of the USA.

2021: No room for it

In November 2021, Rep. Lauren Boebert had called Rep. Ilhan Omar part of a "jihad squad" and then apologized. On Fox Business, Neil Cavuto asked Mace about it. She said: "There's no room in our party or the Democratic party for racist tropes, for Islamophobia." And: "Those comments were not okay with me. I don't condone those kinds of comments." (Fox Business, Nov. 30, 2021, clip via Raw Story.)

When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked her over it, Mace replied on X. Her post ends:

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) on X, Nov. 30, 2021. The post quotes the Greene post it answers.

2025: The bills

On June 18, 2025, at the Holocaust memorial in Charleston, Mace introduced two bills. One would bar supporters of Hamas from the United States. The other would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. She said: "If you support Hamas you are not welcome on American soil. Period." (ABC News 4, June 18, 2025.)

Days later, New York Democrats chose Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, as their nominee for mayor. On The Ops Desk with Paul Mauro, published June 29, 2025, she said of him: "I mean, this is a Sharia fanboy."

On Oct. 29, 2025, her official account posted what she describes as her standing position:

Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) on X, Oct. 29, 2025. A quoted post by Mehdi Hasan appears below her text.

In November 2025, after Mamdani won, a fundraising email from her campaign said he was bringing Sharia law to America. PolitiFact rated that claim Pants on Fire on Nov. 7, 2025. It found that none of the items her campaign pointed to showed Mamdani calling for Sharia. It quoted Nathan J. Brown of George Washington University: "I'm not aware of anything he has said or done that suggests that he supports imposition of Shariah." (PolitiFact.)

March 2026: Ramadan

In March 2026 the United States struck Iran during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. On Newsmax, the host told Mace that Rep. Omar was complaining about the timing. Mace said: "Well, I don't give a damn if it's Ramadan. I don't care if Muslims are fasting right now. This was the right time with the right intel, the right president to go in there and do this." (Newsmax, published March 2, 2026 on her YouTube channel.)

Summer 2026: The posts

On July 27, 2026, Mace posted:

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) on X, July 27, 2026.

The record on that claim: Dylann Roof murdered nine people at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in 2015. He was convicted of federal hate crimes and sentenced to death. He is not Muslim (11Alive). On June 18, 2025, Mace herself opened her news conference by noting the 10th anniversary of that massacre: "Nine innocent men and women were gunned down and murdered by a white supremacist for studying scripture." (ABC News 4.)

On Aug. 7, 2026, her official account posted:

Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) on X, Aug. 7, 2026. X showed more than 10.9 million views when the post was captured on Oct. 15, 2026.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington replied the next day:

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) on X, Aug. 8, 2026. Her opinion, attributed to her.

On the morning of Aug. 9, Mace quoted that reply and wrote:

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) on X, Aug. 9, 2026, 8:06 AM ET. The spelling "Islamaphobe" is hers.

Nine minutes later she posted:

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) on X, Aug. 9, 2026, 8:15 AM ET. The capture shows the start of the post; the full text, which includes a link to a video of an imam, is in the source record.

That morning on CBS, Margaret Brennan read the post to Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana. She asked: "Are you comfortable here? Does your party need to condemn language like this?" He answered: "I condemn language like that." And: "I condemn those statements. And everybody should be treated as an individual." (CBS News, Face the Nation, Aug. 9, 2026.)

CNN, August 9

That evening CNN's Omar Jimenez asked her about the posts. He said: "Are you saying that that anyone who is Muslim is a threat to this country?" Mace answered: "That's not what I said. And that's not what I said. Number one, I think we do have a real issue with radical. ... No, I was talking about elected officials."

Jimenez said: "But Congresswoman, there's no indication that Mayor Mamdani has brought any of those ideals to New York City governance, or that just being Muslim allows you, brings those in." She said: "And in the future, when our granddaughters are wearing burkas to school, we're going to look back and say," and Jimenez cut in: "There's no indication that that is happening on a wide basis."

She also said: "I don't want to hear the call to prayer five times a day in an American city." Jimenez answered: "Well, if you don't want to hear it, that's okay. The first religion protects, the First Amendment, excuse me, protects from freedom of religion. If you don't want to hear it, fine. You know, I grew up in a Christian household. I grew up in the South. Islam is not my religion. But I have Muslim friends who, if that is how they worship, even if I don't want to hear it, that is their right to hear." Later he said: "But the First Amendment is pretty clear on freedom of religion. Article 6, also, no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office."

The interview ended with these words from Mace: "Go back to that country of origin. It doesn't need to be here." Jimenez: "Congresswoman, America has a long history of expressing cultures from various countries. You know that we have seen that play out in generations of immigration. But I've got to leave the conversation there. Congresswoman, thank you for being here." Mace: "I think we should ban all immigrants from those countries." (CNN Newsroom, Aug. 9, 2026, posted by Omar Jimenez on X.)

About two hours after Jimenez posted the interview, her official account posted:

Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) on X, Aug. 9, 2026, 9:30 PM ET.

Her own show

Mace hosts a YouTube show, Get Maced. On Aug. 5, 2026, the morning after Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, she said: "This is the same Islam, after all, whose prophet Muhammad married a six-year-old girl and consummated that marriage when she was nine. I'm sure Wikipedia and Google and all the search engines will dispute that. But we all know the truth."

On Aug. 14, in a segment about Dearborn, Michigan, she ended with: "The only way to fix this mess is for the immediate mass deportations of all these people, and to shut down the border to all Islamic countries before the motherland is the only land left. It's time to choose freedom or choose Islam, and I'm going to choose America first, or America is finished."

On Aug. 27 she posted an image of a child in a Girl Scout uniform with her whole face covered by a veil:

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) on X, Aug. 27, 2026.

Two days earlier, Girl Scouts of the USA had answered claims online about Islamic badges:

Girl Scouts of the USA (@girlscouts) on X, Aug. 25, 2026. The statement is a graphic with no post text.

Its statement reads: "Girl Scouts is not a religious organization and does not teach religion. For more than a century, we've welcomed girls of every faith and background."

Piers Morgan, September 17

On Sept. 17, 2026, on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Mace debated the journalist Mehdi Hasan. Morgan read her trojan horse post and called it brazen Islamophobia. Mace said: "As a woman, I will tell you, Piers, I am terrified of radical Islam. I've seen what they've done in foreign countries when a woman shows her hair being stoned to death, being put to death. That's not the kind of ideology that I want to see here grow in the United States."

Hasan answered: "Lots of people are afraid of radical Islam. I'm afraid of radical Islam. I don't want to be killed by a Muslim terrorist like anyone else. But that's not what she said."

Mace said to Hasan: "Are you going to let the woman speak? I mean, like, you're like jihad adjacent. Do you not respect women? Do you like dogs?" Later she said: "I'm not racist. I'm American. I'm America first."

Morgan asked about Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Muslim who runs Medicare and Medicaid, an appointed office: "Would you want him deported as a threat to national security and our republic?" Mace: "Well, I didn't say, Dr. Oz, should be deported. I do think that people that believe in radical Islam..." Then: "I didn't say every Muslim. I said elected Muslims." And, to Hasan: "Okay, holding public office is an elected position, Mehdi. Do you need a dictionary? Like, come on. That's what it's in reference to."

Hasan raised her 2021 comments about Boebert and Greene. She answered: "Well, I was defending someone's First Amendment right to wear whatever piece of clothing they want to wear. Same thing with the words that you speak. Everyone has the First Amendment right to say what they want to say or wear what they want to wear." (Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sept. 17, 2026.)

September 21 and the close

On Sept. 21, 2026, on Get Maced, Mace returned to the subject. She said: "I don't hate all Muslims, okay?" And: "I loathe and I detest and I'm terrified as a woman of radical Islam, of those that are coming into our country and being we're peaceful Muslims." And: "But honestly, the ironic part is that most Muslims come to the United States to, to escape these regimes."

She said of the hijab: "And the hijab is oppression. It's oppressive of women. And we're putting women in hijabs, girls in hijabs and the Girl Scouts. What are we even talking about anymore? I don't understand it." And: "I like a Muslim who's going to tell you the truth, who's going to tell you that it is here, that is in communities in private, that they're using it in arbitration, that they're using it off the books, that they're using it in loans off the books. Like I want people to be honest about what's happening, lying about the world when Sharia law is running Michigan and is lying about America."

The record on the Michigan claim: Michigan is governed by the constitutions of the United States and of Michigan. PolitiFact has rated similar claims that Sharia law rules Michigan and Dearborn False since 2011 and revisited the question in 2015 (PolitiFact).

Her defense, in one place

She says she means radical Islam and elected officials, and that she does not hate all Muslims. In her words: "Being against radical Islam isn't Islamophobia. Banning Sharia Law isn't Islamophobia." (X, Oct. 29, 2025.) "No, I was talking about elected officials." (CNN, Aug. 9, 2026.) "I didn't say every Muslim. I said elected Muslims." (Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sept. 17, 2026.) "I don't hate all Muslims, okay?" (Get Maced, Sept. 21, 2026.)

Set beside that, in the same record: her 2021 words that there was no room in either party for Islamophobia; the Aug. 7, 2026 post about every single Muslim holding public office; and her words on CNN, "I think we should ban all immigrants from those countries."

Sources and related coverage

Video in the documentary:

• CNN Newsroom, Aug. 9, 2026, interview with Omar Jimenez: posted on X
• Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sept. 17, 2026: YouTube
• Newsmax, published March 2, 2026 on her YouTube channel: YouTube
• Fox Business, Nov. 30, 2021, clip via Raw Story: YouTube
• CBS News, Face the Nation, Aug. 9, 2026: YouTube
• The Ops Desk with Paul Mauro, published June 29, 2025: YouTube
• ABC News 4 (WCIV), Charleston, June 18, 2025: YouTube
• Get Maced with Nancy Mace, Aug. 5, 2026: YouTube
• Get Maced with Nancy Mace, Aug. 14, 2026: YouTube
• Get Maced with Nancy Mace, published Sept. 17, 2026: YouTube
• Get Maced with Nancy Mace, Sept. 21, 2026: YouTube

Posts:

• Nancy Mace (@NancyMace, @RepNancyMace) on X: Nov. 30, 2021, Oct. 29, 2025, July 27, 2026, Aug. 7, 2026, Aug. 9, 2026, 8:06 AM ET, Aug. 9, 2026, 8:15 AM ET, Aug. 9, 2026, 9:30 PM ET, Aug. 27, 2026
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) on X, Aug. 8, 2026: post
• Girl Scouts of the USA (@girlscouts) on X, Aug. 25, 2026: statement
• Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) on X, Nov. 26, 2021: apology

Fact checks and reporting:

• PolitiFact, Nov. 7, 2025, Pants on Fire: Mamdani and Sharia law
• PolitiFact, Feb. 2, 2015: Sharia law and Michigan, a fact check flashback
• 11Alive: Dylann Roof moved to federal death row

On Maceopedia:

• The July 27, 2026 post on terrorists and Muslims
• The Aug. 7, 2026 post on Muslims in public office
• Mace and Omar Jimenez on CNN, Aug. 9, 2026
• The Aug. 27, 2026 Girl Scout uniform post
• Mace and Mehdi Hasan on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sept. 17, 2026
• Get Maced, Sept. 21, 2026: Sharia law and Michigan
• Nov. 30, 2021: Mace's reply to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

The documentary's narration is an AI-generated voice reading a script written and checked by Maceopedia. Edited and captioned clips; all footage belongs to the outlets and creators credited above.