Abdul El-Sayed, for anyone just emerging from a coma, is the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan. Despite trying to eliminate some of his antisemitic, anti-American past tweets and trying to distance himself from the Democratic Socialists of America—DSA—El-Sayed is an Islamist and antisemite. Even some Michigan Jews have begun to notice and just might vote for his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers. For most American Jews, voting for a Republican is akin to race treason.
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At Powerline, Scott Johnson hands up this:
El-Sayed raises the threat level another notch. He toes the Muslim Brotherhood line. To take one glaring example, he was decrying the “genocide” lie against Israel in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 massacre even before Israel had initiated its ground invasion of Gaza on October 27.
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The idea that it’s not Islamist atrocities, but sane, decent people’s reaction to them, is the problem, aligns with the standard Democrat narrative that the problem is not the lunatic rhetoric, actions, and policies of Democrats; the problem is Republicans’ response to them, which includes accurately informing the public about the damage they’re doing or intending.
This evergreen tweet illustrates the issue:
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Consider this New York Post headline:
Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed speaks at religious conference criticized for inviting 9/11 conspiracy theorists
“Religious conference?!”
Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed waxed poetic at a Saturday Islamic convention that has faced criticism for inviting multiple 9/11 conspiracy theorists — six days before the 25th anniversary of the devastating terrorist attacks.
The lefty pol delivered remarks alongside “The Young Turks” founder Cenk Uygur and Muslim cleric Zaid Shakir — both of whom have questioned the government’s narrative of the Sept. 11 attacks — at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention in Detroit Saturday night.
El-Sayed faced heat earlier this week after a since-deleted tweet resurfaced from Sept. 11, 2021 where he mourned the lives lost on 9/11 and trashed America in the process.
But the democratic hopeful remained mum on the topic Saturday and instead used the panel as a platform to focus on anti-Muslim hate across the country.
The NYP did much better in its coverage of the event, but it’s a common problem that our media, even outlets that might be thought “conservative,” concede legitimacy to Islam, which is a political system of conquest and domination with an increasingly ephemeral veil of religious legitimacy. Trying to hide his loyalty to Islamism, El-Sayed stuck with the “oh, we poor Muslims; we’re so oppressed” narrative:
“We found ourselves in a moment now where, as people point to us, Muslim Americans, they want to tell us that we don’t belong,” El-Sayed remarked to the crowd of about 1,000 attendees.
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“They want to tell us that this country is not ours. They want to tell us that because of our names or how we pray, that somehow we are less than.”
Not quite. Americans who understand Islam because they’ve read the Quran and because they listen to Islamist’s words, read their writings and tweets, and take them seriously, know Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western Civilization and peace. Are Islamists “less than” Normal Americans? Yes, in the sense that sane people understand that not all cultures are alike and equally valuable. How could cultures that want to enslave and conquer the world for Islam be equal to a peaceful, prosperous, free society like ours? So, yes, Islamists and Sharia law absolutely “don’t belong.” People like El-Sayed are lucky we haven’t yet summoned the common sense and will to declare Islam a terrorist ideology.
Others at the “religious conference” weren’t quite so circumspect:
While El-Sayed remained tight-lipped to avoid making any controversial statements, his fellow panelists were more fired up and made several anti-Israel comments.
Uygur criticized the US’s support for Israel, saying, “it is unbearable to me as an American,” and referred to the horrifying October 7 attacks in a rather flippant way.
“‘Oh my god, on October 7, the worst thing since the Holocaust,’” he snarked about the mainstream media’s coverage of the attacks on Israel.
October 7th was the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Yes. That was “rather flippant.”
El-Sayed has recently shown increasing signs of desperation. Democrats’ internal polling must be alarming, yet it’s still possible, with sufficient election fraud, El-Sayed could be elected to the Senate, where, joining with several other Islamists in the House, he could do increasing damage to America.
The greatest danger lies in delay, in Islamists like El-Sayed fooling Americans into thinking the “religion” of bloodlust and conquest is just another faith protected by the First Amendment, like Baptists and Catholics, just people who want to pray and live in peace with others.
That’s not what Islam teaches and demands, or what El-Sayed intends.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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