Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, spent years mocking and attacking Muslims on social media, a review of his posts on Facebook reveals.

Robinson, who is the states lieutenant governor, regularly made Islamophobic comments on his personal account from 2012 to 2017. He assumed his leadership role in January 2021.

In November 2016, he called it sad that religious freedom applies to Muslims and that it means they are free to do as they please.

Whats also sad, Robinson continued, is that anyone who says anything about it is a bigot.