Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) disparaged Muslims in an interview Wednesday on “The Benny Show,” calling their religion a “cult.”

“We got these third world people coming here. Are these Muslims? They call it a religion. What religion do you know that says, ‘If you’re not in our religion, we’re going to kill you and we want you dead?’ I mean, that’s not a religion. That’s a cult,” the GOP lawmaker said.

“And they took over Europe. It’s gone. They’re coming here by the thousands. And nobody’s worried about it,” Tuberville added.

Tuberville’s comments came after host Benny Johnson said immigrants should “reject” their home countries if they come to America.

“If you come here from another country and you want to be an American, you then reject that country,” the podcaster said. “That’s no longer your country.”

The conversation then switched to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who came to the U.S. in the 1990s after her family fled the civil war in Somalia, after Johnson called the Somalia-born lawmaker “parasitic.”

“It does seem entirely antithetical to the American experiment to have somebody like Ilhan Omar, who is on the campaign trail, by the way, with the president of Somalia. And he came out and he said, ‘No, no, no … she doesn’t work for America. She works for Somalia,’” Johnson said.

“We have the tape. We have the video,” he continued. “It’s in whatever language they speak, but that’s what he says. She is the congresswoman for Somalia. This is the purpose of having her here. You know, it’s parasitic.”

Johnson added that it’s “obviously a cancer on the political body to do that because it’s going to take away from Americans.”

Johnson went on to ask Tuberville if a law should be passed that says lawmakers “have to be born in America” before being elected. Currently, federal lawmakers in America do not have to be born in the United States to be elected, but they must be U.S. citizens.

“Well, if you talk like they talk, they should be kicked out, OK?” Tuberville responded. “They should be banned from any committees. They should not be able to vote. I mean, come on. Either you love this country or you don’t. If you’re fighting against this country, you should be out of here.”

Tuberville took aim at Omar earlier this year during a February press conference, saying, “If people like [her] love this way of life back home, why don’t you just move the hell back?”

Watch Tuberville’s appearance on “The Benny Show” below.

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