El-Sayed: Harbinger of Perilous Times

By: Lisa Van Houten

Abdul El-Sayed is the most radical Senate candidate in America and voters in Michigan need to know exactly who he is before heading to the polls in November.

Behind his hipster vibe is a trail of deleted social media posts and YouTube podcasts which reveal what El-Sayed actually believes.  Before launching his campaign, El-Sayed removed over 100 of his videos from 2022-2024.  These weren’t from decades ago, but just a few years ago.  As he seeks to win Democrat voters who found him too radical in the primary, he now claims the extreme positions he espoused just months before deciding to run for the U.S. Senate “don’t reflect his beliefs today.”  Yet one’s core beliefs don’t dramatically change in such a short span of time, so how can voters trust what he says now?  If elected, we can expect to see his true colors to be revealed once again.

His deleted posts, as well as the radical ideology El-Sayed continues to proudly embrace, show how far removed he is from mainstream Americans.  He conveniently claims that he’s not a member of the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), but his policy positions are virtually in lockstep with the DSA.  He has advocated for defunding the police, claiming that police funding “is influenced by systematic racism,” and stated in one of his deleted posts: “The police have become standing armies we deploy against our own people.”  Similar to other socialist candidates who want to abolish prisons, El-Sayed has supported disinvesting from incarceration and ending cash bail.  He advocated for open borders, wants to abolish ICE and immigration enforcement, while he backs granting citizenship to illegal aliens.

In another of his deleted podcasts, El-Sayed suggested abolishing the Second Amendment which protects the right to bear arms and replacing it with a constitutional right to healthcare.  This goes along with his push for government-run, socialized medicine – which he admitted would require everyone’s taxes to go up in order to pay for it. His Medicare for All plan would require a 32% payroll tax and a doubling of the federal income tax. We’ve seen the horrors in Canada and the UK when government controls healthcare.

In a recent interview, Abdul El-Sayed’s Marxist bona fides were on full display as he advocated for communist-style government seizure of privately-owned companies.  When asked by the interviewer: “Are you in favor of public ownership models?”  El-Sayed replied: “I want to actually take it a step further.  I agree that we need public ownership, but I also agree that we need some system of public control.” (“Public ownership” is code for the Marxist goal of governmental control of the means of production.)

While El-Sayed seeks to be the next senator from Michigan, the home of the “Motor City” and whose economy was built upon the auto industry, El-Sayed served on the board of the Sunrise Movement from 2019-2021, whose goal is to ban all gas-powered cars by 2040.   Considering that there are no cars allowed on Michigan’s idyllic Mackinac Island, you’d think El-Sayed would appreciate this beloved Great Lakes treasure, but he was caught on video stating: “I hate Mackinac so much.”  That’s not the only slice of Americana he despises.  He also has opined on his hatred of 4th of July fireworks.  And El-Sayed’s anti-American ideology was again evident in his post from November 2019 regarding Thanksgiving: “Just a reminder this Thanksgiving:  America was built upon the systematic annihilation of Indigenous Peoples.”

El-Sayed also devoted a podcast to the evils of bacon, that mouthwatering slice of deliciousness that 80% of Americans “love or like,” according to Meat+Poultry magazine. El-Sayed claimed it’s a carcinogen and compared it to “plutonium.”  Yet his focus on getting Americans to stop eating bacon, and not other unhealthy foods, couldn’t be because bacon is prohibited by Sharia law, which he has said he follows – could it?

Then in a state where both sides of the political aisle are obsessed with football, where game days between the rival Spartans and Wolverines are practically state holidays, where diehard Lions fans begin every season fervently hoping that this will be the year, only to have their dreams dashed once again – it was this, the most popular American sport, that Abdul El-Sayed chose to condemn, claiming that football is an example of “toxic masculinity.”  He also compared football to slavery, stating: “Folks who founded this country on the backs of native folks that they destroyed, then captured people, enslaved them and had them work their fields… you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football.”  That’s quite ironic considering that Islam still continues the practice of slavery.  Today, hundreds of thousands of black men, women, and children are enslaved by Muslims in numerous African countries – bought and sold as chattel.  Yet where is the outrage from leftists like El-Sayed?  They, and he, are silent because it doesn’t fit their narrative that white men are the source of all evil in the world.

So, El-Sayed hates fireworks, football, and Thanksgiving.  No word on his opinion of apple pie.  Yet these seemingly trivial examples are actually indicative of a much more serious anti-American ideology and hatred for Western values pushed by leftists such as El-Sayed.  For example, Abdul El-Sayed also claims, America was “founded on the removal of a whole people. Founded on the idea that we could compromise on whether or not people could be enslaved.”

The sin of slavery was a terrible stain in our nation’s history, but America was not founded upon slavery, but upon the truth “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  Yet socialists and Islamists like El-Sayed are striving to undermine those principles and the only One True God who is the foundation for them.  Their goal isn’t to protect freedom, but rather to establish another form of enslavement – to Marxist and Islamic ideology.

In the past, Abdul El-Sayed has proclaimed his “obligation” to follow Sharia law in every aspect of his life until he dies.  Sharia is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution, denies the freedom of speech, and subjugates women. Anyone who seeks to be “Sharia-compliant” should be disqualified from holding office in the United States.

How would someone who sees Sharia law as superior to the Constitution govern?  We may have seen a glimpse of that when El-Sayed ran Detroit’s Animal Control (DACC) from 2015 -2017, as part of his role as executive director of the Detroit Health Department.  Under his authority, the DACC slaughtered thousands of dogs and cats – mostly dogs.  A whistleblower alleged that the DACC was a “dog slaughterhouse” where animals were deprived of medical care, kept in filthy cages, and euthanized without checking for microchips that could reunite them with owners.  Over 4,600 animals were killed during El-Sayed’s short time as director.  According to the animal rescue Best Friends, the “save” rate in 2015 was only 20 percent, when 1,988 dogs were euthanized.  In 2016, 1,056 dogs were killed, but only 29 cats.

What does killing thousands of dogs have to do with being Sharia-compliant?  “Everything,” Robert Spencer explains, “because Islam hates dogs. Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, ordered them killed.”  If his adherence to Islamic ideology affected how El-Sayed ran a dog shelter, how would his commitment to Sharia law impact his decisions in the Senate?

Sharia law is not simply a religious text, but is primarily a legal system that followers see as superior to all other forms of government.  It’s a legal implementation of Muhammad’s dictates of how society should be ordered – both for Islamic adherents and the subjugation of “infidels.”  “There can be nothing voluntary about certain aspects of adherence to sharia,” writes Daniel Brubaker at the Federalist.  Which explains why El-Sayed says he has an “obligation” to follow Sharia law.  “Can a legal system that claims final authority over conscience, speech, and the courtroom be welcomed into a constitutional republic and trusted to remain in submission to the laws of the land?” Brubaker asks.

There are already Sharia Courts operating in the U.S., such as the Islamic Tribunal in Dallas.  As the Washington Times reports: “Across the United States, Islamic arbitration bodies quietly handle hundreds of family law cases each year — marriage, divorce, custody, inheritance — behind closed doors, with no transcripts, no appeals and no public oversight. All-male panels apply traditional Shariah rules to 21st-century American women and children.”  A woman’s testimony is worth half a man’s, women are pressured to return to abusive husbands, and also report being pressured to accept a religious divorce which leaves them financially devastated. And then there is Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Muslim-majority city in America, where the all-Muslim city council voted to legalize backyard animal sacrifice, over the objections of the non-Muslim minority.

If a politician such as Abdul El-Sayed swears allegiance to a system of government that is diametrically opposed to our Constitution and western civilization, it is not “Islamophobic” to question the troubling implications for our nation.  Rather, as voters, it’s our obligation to determine if a candidate’s worldview is compatible with American values and law.  Criticizing an ideology and how a Muslim politician would implement it is not bigotry.  Yet, Americans are too often bullied into silence with accusations of “Islamophobia.”

We are known by the company we keep.  El-Sayed is funded and has ties to terror-linked organizations – including the Muslim Brotherhood which is a designated terrorist organization.  His own mother worked for a designated terror group which has ties to Hamas and the Taliban.  El-Sayed also has continued to align with terrorist sympathizer Hasan Piker, who has stated: “We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna [rape] your sisters and then your daughters.” (Piker used a far more obscene word.)  And said, “We’re here to destroy the White race.”  Piker also stated that America deserved 9/11 – a sentiment El-Sayed refused to condemn, until recently, when he called Piker’s comment “dumb.”  And El-Sayed himself has a long record of diminishing the 9/11 terror attack and equating the murder of Americans on that day to the death of terrorists in America’s response.

We used to say “never forget” regarding the 9/11 attacks.  As we approach the 25th anniversary of that heinous day, it seems as if we no longer remember the radical ideology which took down the Twin Towers and led to the murder of thousands of Americans.  Today there is a more insidious form of that same ideology seeking to tear down the pillars of our nation from within.

 

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