HOOVER — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is pushing back against Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin declaring January 2026 as Muslim American Heritage Month.
At last week's Birmingham City Council meeting, Woodfin asked the council to endorse his proclamation recognizing the Muslim holidays of Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha and to designate the month as Muslim American Heritage Month.
Ahead of serving as the keynote speaker at the Alabama Hospital Association's Healthcare Leadership Summit on Saturday, Tuberville responded to Woodfin's proclamation, warning against attempts to change the nation's culture and Constitution.
"I'm not against anybody in this country that wants to assimilate, wants to go by our laws and Constitution and go by our culture," Tuberville told 1819 News. "If you're not going to do that, if youre going to try to change our culture, youre in the wrong place, the way I look at it. I want people to be Americans. If you come here, you make this country better, this state better, your community better. And this has nothing to do with anything other than people wanting to do things their own way, and that's not how we do them in America. In America, we're all on the same page in our laws and Constitution, and the future of our country, our kids, and education. We all speak one language, which is English, and we don't try to change people to go by something else. This is a Christian country, and as long as I'm alive, we're still going to be preaching Christianity and the Bible, and we want our kids to understand that."
"Now, you have freedom of speech, and you can do whatever you want, but it's hard for this country to survive. Our country is going to be in huge trouble if we start taking different paths to try to indoctrinate people in things other than our Constitution and our laws," he concluded.
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