Will America Elect Its First Islamist Senator?

During a recent town hall, a Michigan University student named Iman Dashti confronted Democratic Party’s Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, regarding his habitual whitewashing and rationalization of Islamic terrorism.Mr. Dashti, who says his family is a victim of the Iranian regime’s theocratic persecution, pressed the candidate numerous times to denounce one of the world’s most odious tyrannies.Did Dr. El-Sayed regret not speaking out against the tyrannical clerics of Iran?Would he now renounce those who held vigils supporting the mass murderer, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?Would he “unequivocally” condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a group that’s not only tortured, imprisoned and killed tens of thousands of Iranian civilians in the past year but is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans?The answer was no, no and no. Dr. El-Sayed wouldn’t.Rather, the candidate offered a platitudinous word salad on how the United States should avoid becoming “the world’s policeman” and how we can still stand “in solidarity with freedom and democracy movements.”Mr. Dashti didn’t ask Dr. El-Sayed about regime change in Iran. He asked the candidate to offer a condemnation of some of the most odious characters in the world. Dr. El-Sayed simply couldn’t do it. And it is important to ask why.There’s nothing inherently wrong with arguing that America shouldn’t be the world’s policeman. Yet we already know that Dr. El-Sayed has no qualms demanding that Americans act like the police.Otherwise, why would he demand the Trump administration arrest the elected prime minister of our ally Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the behest of an international “court” helmed by activists from France, Benin, and Slovenia?And Dr. El-Sayed’s refusal to speak on the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, killed in a joint American-Israeli air strike, had absolutely nothing to do with an aversion to America meddling abroad. We know this from leaked audio in which the candidate instructed his staff not to comment on the death of the medieval Islamic Twelver radical who led his nation in chants of “Death to America” because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.”Judging from the preponderance of evidence, Dr. El-Sayed was almost surely sad, himself.Dr. El-Sayed says he opposes foreign entanglements. Yet while he not only wants to cut off American aid to Israel but also stop any sales of military equipment, even defensive ones, he supports military aid to Ukraine. The Senate candidate maintains the difference is that, unlike the Jewish state, Ukraine was attacked by Russia, who had broken “international law.”Which means that Dr. El-Sayed doesn’t consider the murder of over 1,200 Israeli men, women and children against “international law.” Nor does he consider the launching of over 350 ballistic missiles at Israel by Iran — nearly two years before Operation Epic Fury was initiated — a belligerent act of war.It makes sense. The first instinct of Dr. El-Sayed, who once protested an appearance by reformed terrorists who had converted to Christianity, when a would-be Hezbollah terrorist attempted to slaughter a school filled with 4- and 5-year-old Jewish children, was “hurt people hurt people.”It is no surprise that this Senate candidate would invite podcaster Hasan Piker, the man who hasn’t run across an Islamic terrorist group or murderous communist he didn’t feel compelled to defend, to campaign with him.These days, Dr. El-Sayed keeps referring to Mr. Piker as a “Twitch streamer in California” to gaslight journalists who ask him about the relationship. Yet if Mr. Piker was an irrelevant out-of-state social media personality, why did Dr. El-Sayed feel compelled to campaign with him on numerous occasions? Occam’s razor tells us that Dr. El-Sayed feels a connection, even holds similar views, to a man, Mr. Piker, who has said America deserved 9/11 — a comment Mr. Piker later to a degree walked back.Dr. El-Sayed also believes, at best, that Western nations are as evil or worse than jihadists. That moral equivalence was on display in a now-deleted 2021 tweet commemorating 9/11.“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” Dr. El-Sayed tweeted before adding, “Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”It is clear from that comment that Dr. El-Sayed believes we are far worse than the Islamist extremists of the Middle East.In a healthier era, any one of these relationships would have sunk a candidacy. At this point, Michigan voters are well aware of Dr. El-Sayed’s radicalism, and yet he looks poised to become our first Islamist senator.Creators.com

Will America Elect Its First Islamist Senator?

Will America Elect Its First Islamist Senator?

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