Wait a minute: aren’t these people supposed to be all about diversity, equity, inclusion, and tolerance? Guess not:
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A conservative student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor says he received threats and harassment after questioning Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about his refusal to directly condemn Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iman Dashti, a Persian American student and member of College Republicans, described the threats in an Instagram video following a Sept. 23 town hall confrontation with El-Sayed.
“Since that day, people have threatened me, doxxed my friends, even harassed my family,” Dashti said.
Dashti said critics questioned his political affiliations, accusing him of being a “Zionist plant” or working for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers.
“So to all you detectives, yes, I’m a proud Christian conservative. I’m a member of College Republicans, and yes, I have met Mike Rogers,” Dashti said. “But none of that changes the fact that Abdul’s answer was terrible.”
E-Sayed has consistently dodged saying anything negative about the Iranian Islamist regime. At his recent debate with Republican Mike Rogers, he continued dodging:
Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly refused to answer whether he considers Iran or Israel to be the “greater threat to the United States.”
When presented with that question during his debate Thursday against Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers, El-Sayed ripped it as a “ridiculous hypothetical.”
“Here’s what’s happening right now: our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran,” El-Sayed, a Democrat, replied. “We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world’s energy supply.”
“This is a situation in which I don’t think we should be a part [of],” he added. “I want our money spent here to buy schools and health care and child care here.”
Pressed again about which country is the bigger threat to the US, El-Sayed reiterated his point, calling it a “ridiculous question” and claiming that “both of them have proven dangerous in their own way.”
Notice that deceptive framing? The war with Iran is the reason they’ve bombed their neighbors and attacked tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. To El-Sayed’s way of thinking, that’s justified, what any nation would do to people it has been attacking for decades.
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During the town hall, Dashti confronted El-Sayed about his family’s experiences under Iran’s government.
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Dashti said his cousin was pursued through the streets of Iran by the IRGC over her hijab, while his uncle received a death sentence and 50 lashes.
He subsequently pressed El-Sayed to clarify whether he stood unequivocally against the IRGC and the Islamic Republic.
Rather than directly condemning the IRGC, El-Sayed criticized American foreign policy and warned against U.S.-backed regime change.
Dashti was, of course, attacked for his Republican affiliation, as though that delegitimized his valid questions, which El-Sayed dodged. If only Islamists can question Islamists, there aren’t going to be any honest, revealing answers.
In a subsequent statement to The Jerusalem Post, Dashti said his grandmother had also been doxxed following the exchange.
Despite the backlash, Dashti maintained that his political affiliations did not diminish the legitimacy of his concerns about the Iranian regime’s treatment of his family.
“I asked Abdul if he would stand with the Persian people not once, not twice, but three times,” Dashti said.
That’s a significant issue, as is El-Sayed’s non-response. Iran is historically a Persian, not an Arabic and Islamic nation. Islam was imposed on them after the Shah was deposed, which explains why the IRGC so willingly slaughters Iranians who violate Sharia, Islamic customs, and dare to protest. From the Jerusalem Post article:
El-Sayed responded by criticizing American foreign policy and warning against US-led regime change operations abroad, stating that democratic reforms must come from the people of Iran rather than military intervention.
Which El-Sayed knows can’t happen without “military intervention,” because the Iranian regime will murder Iranians who dare advocate for democratic reforms.
The harassment, doxxing, and threats Dashti is receiving are the true status quo of the Islamist/Communist left in America. Elsewhere, Dashti would be killed, and one can reasonably believe El-Sayed wouldn’t object.
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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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