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"Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims": Mace's July 27 post draws 53,500 likes
On July 27, 2026, at 7:04 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.' The post drew roughly 53,500 likes and 7,440 replies. It is the latest entry in a pattern of Mace statements about Muslims and Islam that runs from a June 2026 H-E-B endorsement through a November 2025 'Stop Muslim radicals' fundraising email to her own Muslim Brotherhood legislation, alongside her repeated line that opposing 'radical Islam' and Sharia law 'isn't Islamophobia.'
Rep. Nancy Mace posted this on her personal X account, @NancyMace, at 7:04 PM ET on July 27, 2026:
"Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims."
Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.
Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 27, 2026
The post drew roughly 53,500 likes and 7,440 replies. Mace did not attach any additional context, article, or event to the post.
Her own defense
Mace has repeatedly framed statements like this one as opposition to "radical Islam" and Sharia law rather than Islam broadly. In a post tied to her Muslim Brotherhood legislation, she wrote:
"Sharia law has no place in America. Being against radical Islam isn't Islamophobia. Banning Sharia Law isn't Islamophobia."
Sharia law has no place in America. Being against radical Islam isn't Islamophobia. Banning Sharia Law isn't Islamophobia.
Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) via X
She has also, at least once, publicly rejected the "religious bigot" label. In a November 2021 exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over Rep. Lauren Boebert's remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar, Mace wrote: "What I'm not is a religious bigot (or racist)." That post is cataloged separately: Mace corrects MTG's spelling, calls herself "not a religious bigot (or racist)".
The pattern this post fits
The July 27 post is not an isolated statement. It is the latest in a run of Mace posts and official actions involving Muslims and Islam, each in her own words and each dated below.
June 20, 2026: the H-E-B endorsement. Mace publicly backed a Texas woman, Dasha Kilpatrick, who confronted two hijab-wearing Muslim U.S. citizens inside an H-E-B grocery store. Mace posted: "I stand with Dasha, do you?" Yahoo News covered the incident and Mace's response.
November 6, 2025: the "Stop Muslim radicals" fundraising email. A Mace campaign fundraising email carried the subject line "Stop Muslim radicals." Its body argued that "Republicans must treat the rise of Islamic radicalism as another 9/11" and claimed New Yorkers "voted to elect a man who's bringing SHARIA LAW to America," a reference to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In These Times reported on the email as part of a broader look at Mamdani-related rhetoric from Mace and other Republicans. PolitiFact rated the Sharia law claim False, finding no basis for the assertion that Mamdani intends to impose Sharia law in New York City.
The Muslim Brotherhood Is a Terrorist Organization Act. Mace has also pursued this through legislation, pairing her push to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization with the Sharia-focused messaging quoted above.
How outlets have characterized the pattern
Some outlets have grouped Mace's Muslim-focused posts, including this one, under labels like "anti-Muslim" or "Islamophobic." NBC News and Zeteo are among the outlets that have used language along those lines in coverage of Mace's statements about Muslims and Islam. Maceopedia attributes those characterizations to the outlets using them and takes no position of its own on whether the label applies; readers can compare Mace's verbatim posts above against her own "isn't Islamophobia" framing and reach their own conclusions.
Related Maceopedia coverage
The July 27 post sits alongside Mace's parallel pattern of statements about Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim member of Congress and naturalized U.S. citizen:
- "One-way ticket to Somalia" (September 17, 2025)
- Mace calls deporting "Somalia-first" Ilhan Omar the best "250th birthday present to America" (June 15, 2026)
See also the subject hubs Racism, Immigration, and Minority Caucuses and Ilhan Omar.
Sources & related coverage
- Rep. Nancy Mace, @NancyMace on X: "Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims." (July 27, 2026)
- Rep. Nancy Mace, @RepNancyMace on X: "Sharia law has no place in America. Being against radical Islam isn't Islamophobia. Banning Sharia Law isn't Islamophobia."
- Yahoo News, "Rep. Nancy Mace backs Texas woman" (June 20, 2026)
- In These Times, "Zohran Mamdani, racism, media, Randy Fine, Nancy Mace" (November 2025)
- PolitiFact, "Mamdani mayor New York Shariah law" (rated False) (November 7, 2025)
- Newsweek, "Nancy Mace Hits Back at Marjorie Taylor Greene Over 'Racist' Defense of Lauren Boebert" (November 30, 2021)
- Maceopedia, "One-way ticket to Somalia" (September 17, 2025)
- Maceopedia, Mace calls deporting "Somalia-first" Ilhan Omar the best "250th birthday present to America" (June 15, 2026)
- Maceopedia, Mace corrects MTG's spelling, calls herself "not a religious bigot (or racist)" (November 30, 2021)
This dispatch reproduces verbatim quotes from Mace's own public posts and statements, plus attributed characterizations from named outlets. It takes no position of its own on any disputed characterization.
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